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Tympanoplasty
MICHEL PORTMANN, MD
Arch Otolaryngol. 1963;78(1):2-19.
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In the last few years, tympanoplastic surgery has greatly developed. This development rests on a certain number of problems:
- On the selection of cases and of the preoperative treatments to give to the patient;
- On the different techniques, particularly the tympanic grafts;
- On the postoperative care.
Analyzing our results, we shall talk about the possibilities of further development opened to tympanoplastic surgery in the future.
Selection of Cases
Tympanoplastic surgery is connected with otitis and its sequelae, that is to say, chronic otitis of the middle ear, and with the after-effects of otitis.
Let us quickly go over the main divisions of chronic otitis of the middle ear.
One can, in fact, distinguish a well-defined syndrome, the cholesteatoma, from other forms of otitis which we will call the simple chronic otitis. In the cases of cholesteatomatosis otitis of the middle ear, the cholesteatoma lesion causes the inflammation
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Author Affiliations
BORDEAUX, FRANCE
Footnotes
Presented before the International College of Surgeons, September, 1962.
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