This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Bruce Proctor, MD; Conrad Proctor, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1968;88(3):330-335.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

DURING the past decade tympanoplasty has tremendously improved the lot of patients with chronic middle ear disease. As a result of this surgery many patients have a high incidence of dry ears with permanently closed perforations as well as permanent hearing improvement instead of further hearing losses as a result of the former policy of watchful waiting or inadequate surgery.

Pathology

According to Sade^1,2 serous otitis media is not a sequel to vacuum in the middle ear but an exudate from the mucosa secondary to infection. Persistence of effusion may be due to ciliary deficiency, ciliary inability to cope with tenacious mucus or to hypersecretion, all of these being middle ear clearance problems.

Some politzerizable eustachian tubes are incapable of equalizing nasopharyngeal and middle ear pressures when there is a chronic negative pressure in the middle ear. This results in retracted atelectatic eardrums. Buckingham³ reexpands these cases . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Royal Oak, Mich

From the William Beaumont Hospital Research Institute, Royal Oak, Mich.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication March 19, 1968.

Reprint requests to 1301 W 13 Mile Rd, Royal Oak, Mich 48072 (Dr. Bruce Proctor).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Facebook    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?