Abstract

FIGUEROA HERNANDEZ, Armando J  and  FUENTES, Francisco de la O. Timpanoplastias: Veinte años después. Rev Cubana cir [online]. 1999, vol.38, n.3, pp. 130-135. ISSN 1561-2945.

25 patients who underwent surgery of the middle ear and mastoid at the Provincial Clinical and Surgical Hospital of Sancti Spiritus in 1975 were studied. Some of the aspects analyzed were age, sex, color, of the skin, place of origin, characteristics of otorrhea and tympanic perforation, state of the mastoid, regional associated affections, audiometry and type of surgical procedure. The results published at 6 months first and then one year after the operation were discussed and compared with a control carried out 20 years later. 84 % of them are under control at present. The best clinical and audiometric results were obtained in type I tympanoplasties (83.3 %). The failures reported by the expulsion of the polyethylene prothesis occurred mostly less than a year after performing type II and III tympanoplasties. It was necessary to operate on 24 % of them again. Clinical evolution was good but not the audiometric one

Keywords : TYMPANOPLASTY [methods]; EAR MIDDLE [surgery]; MASTOID [surgery].

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