Cartilage tympanoplasty for management of tympanic membrane atelectasis: Is ventilatory tube necessary?

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 859-864

  Elsheikh, Mohamed Nasser ^a,b   Elsherief, Hosam S ^a   Elsherief, Sayed G ^a  

^a TANTA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Atelectatic ear; Cartilage tympanoplasty; Tympanic membrane; Ventilation tube

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR CONDUCTION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY OSSICLE; CARTILAGE GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EAR RECONSTRUCTION; EARDRUM DISEASE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PERICHONDRIUM; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; T TUBE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYMPANOPLASTY; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE;

ADULT; CARTILAGE; EAR DISEASES; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE; TYMPANOPLASTY;

EID: 33748296260     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mao.0000226288.96423.ed     Document Type: Article

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