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Tauno Palva, MD; Juhani Kärjä, MD; Antti Palva, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1976;102(3):137-139.

Abstract
• Complications of chronic ear surgery in a series of 2,192 operations are reported. Inadvertent opening of the inner ear occurred in 18 cases, leading to deafness in six ears. Four ears became deaf without apparent cause, for a total of ten (0.5%). High-tone sensorineural losses resulted in 3% of the ears. Facial nerve paralysis occurred in ten ears; in one of these, a graft was employed during primary surgery. All patients had a good recovery. It is stressed that to keep the number of complications at a minimum, strict rules must be followed and sufficient supervision offered in chronic ear surgery in teaching institutions.

(Arch Otolaryngol 102:137-139, 1976)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Otolaryngology, University of Helsinki (Dr T. Palva), and the Department of Otolaryngology, University of Oulu (Drs A. Palva and Kärjä), Finland.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Nov 11, 1975.

Reprint requests to the Department of Otolaryngology, University of Helsinki, Haartman inkatu 4 E, 00290 Helsinki 29 Finland (Dr T. Palva).

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