Six years experience with the Robinson stainless steel stapedial prosthesis and vein craft

Summary

In summarv, all the delayed hearing losses, both conductive and cochlear, consisted of 1.4% of the 1336 cases. There were no total delayed cochlear losses (“dead ears”) and interestingly enough there were. 0.3% transient cochlear losses and 0.3% transient conductive losses, all of which returned to normal. What appears most interesting in this series is that the delayed cochlear losses (0.8%) are almost equalized by the delayed conductive losses (0.6%) and that very little emphasis has been placed on the delayed conductive losses, their causes, and their treatment, despite the fact that the hearing in most of these can be successfully restored by revision surgery.