Paediatric Cartilage Tympanoplasty: A Two Handed Technique with Our Endoscope Holder

xlomafota13 shared this article with you from Inoreader Paediatric Cartilage Tympanoplasty: A Two Handed Technique with Our Endoscope Holder Via Otolaryngology Indian Abstract The aim of the study is to evaluate the functional and anatomical results of paediatric sliced cartilage type 1 tympanoplasty using our endoscope holder. It is Retrospective Non Randomized Clinical Study. A total of consecutive 81 children operated from January 2016 to December 2017 for endoscopic type I sliced cartilage tympanoplasty with endoscope holder were included in the study. The study included 44 males and 37 females. The patients ranged from 8 to 18 years. In early follow up period ranging from 24 to 48 months, the graft take up was seen in 76 follow up giving a success rate of 93.82 percent. The pre-operative air–bone gap was 32.34 ± 2.71 dB and the post-operative mean 4 tone air–bone gap at 1 and 2 years was 9.12 ± 2.37 dB and 9.42 ± 1.38 dB respectively. The study reports the good air bone closure and anatomical closure of perforation with sliced cartilage in paediatric tympanoplasty. View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.