tympanoplasties การใช้

• This fascia is commonly used in tympanoplasty, or surgical reconstruction of the eardrum.
• Tympanoplasty is the general name of the operation to repair the middle ear's eardrum and ossicles.
• Ossicular chain reconstruction is often performed in conjunction with repair of ear drum perforations, referred to as tympanoplasty.
• Tympanoplasty is the surgical technique of removal of the retracted area from the middle ear and reconstruction of the tympanic membrane.
• Mastoidectomies began to be performed with the surgical microscope and so were the tympanoplasty techniques that became known in the early 1950s.
• In the case of a tympanoplasty, the skin flap will not lay down as the nitrous oxide will be diffusing into the middle ear.
• This not only improved the tympanoplasty success rate but allowed a superior means to place a strut prosthesis directly beneath the malleus without the graft being interposed.
• Tympanoplasty can be performed through the ear canal ( transcanal approach ), through an incision in the ear ( endaural approach ) or through an incision behind the ear ( postauricular approach ).
• Unlike most methods where a graft is placed under the malleus bone, Kartush popularized the " Over-Under Tympanoplasty " wherein a fascia graft is positioned over the malleus and under the remaining ear drum.
• Otologic surgery generally refers to surgery of the middle ear and mastoid related to chronic otitis media, such as tympanoplasty, or ear drum surgery, ossiculoplasty, or surgery of the hearing bones, and mastoidectomy.
• Many general otolaryngologists are trained in otology or middle ear surgery, performing surgery such as a tympanoplasty, or a reconstruction of the ear drum, when a hole remains from a prior ear tube or prior infection.