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Haruo Saito, MD; Kazuo Miyamoto, MD; Seiji Kishimoto, MD; Hideo Higashitsuji, MD; Hiroyuki Kitamura, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1978;104(2):79-81.

Abstract
• Eardrum perforation caused by burn is well known to have a tendency to resist closure. This unfavorable tendency can be turned to the benefit of patients with severe, Eustachian tube dysfunction. Pressure equalization of sufficient duration can be produced by making a burn perforation of the tympanic membrane.

Multiple, small perforations placed closely or a large perforation of about one eighth of the tympanic membrane will remain patent and equalize pressure across the tympanic membrane for a period greater than three months. The procedure is of a minor nature comparable with myringotomy or with the removal of a plugged clot from a tube.

(Arch Otolaryngol 104:79-81, 1978)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Otolaryngology, Tenri Hospital, Tenri, Nara, Japan (Drs Saito, Miyamoto, Kishimoto, Higashitsuji, and Kitamura), and the Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan (Dr Saito).

Footnotes
Accepted for publication May 26, 1977.

Read in part before the third Asia-Oceania Congress of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Bali, July 14, 1975.

Reprint requests to Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 606 (Dr Saito).

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