Importance Physicians should ideally be able to provide patients with chronic otitis media
and/or cholesteatoma specific information about postoperative hearing outcome, based on …

After the surgical procedure of ossicular chain reconstruction, the effectiveness and/or
stability of partial ossicular replacement prosthesis (PORP) or total ossicular replacement …

Middle ear ossicles transfer and amplify sound waves from the Tympanic Membrane (TM) to
the inner ear and function as impedance transformers to overcome impedance mismatches …

The objective of this study was to compare health-related quality of life (HRQOL) after
sequential cholesteatoma surgery including exclusively transcanal technique (ETC) …

Conductive hearing loss, due to middle ear pathologies or traumas, affects more than 5% of
the population worldwide. Passive prostheses to replace the ossicular chain mainly rely on …

Titanium middle ear (ME) prostheses are widely used in surgical practice due to their
acoustic properties. However, they present a significant drawback shared by all synthetic …

The aim of this study is to analyse the long-term anatomical and functional outcomes and
prognostic factors of the canal wall down (CWD) tympanoplasty for the treatment of tympano …

Purpose To describe the surgical procedure of exclusive endoscopic ossiculoplasty (EEO)
with autologous grafts and evaluate audiological results, focusing on the advantages or …

The objective of this study was to assess hearing outcome after sequential cholesteatoma
surgery stratified for exclusively transcanal technique (ETC), combined transcanal and …

Objective: The objective of this study is to compare hearing improvements in the air-bone
gap (ABG) after type III tympanoplasties, comparing between incus transposition (IT) and …