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Cartilage Tympanoplasty: A Review on Its Postoperative Outcomes on Hearing

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Cartilage graft tympanoplasty has a better success rate in the treatment of chronic otitis media if properly prepared pre-operatively and placed intraoperative. To prepare cartilage graft from tragus and to compare pre-operative and postoperative hearing. 35 patients with chronic otitis media of tubotympanic type, without intra/extra cranial complications disease were made to undergo cartilage tympanoplasty. The study was conducted prospectively. In this technique, patients had an average improvement in hearing up to 10–12 dB. The mean post-operative period follow up was 2–6 months. If cartilage graft is properly prepared and placed, cartilage tympanoplasty appears to provide better success rates and hearing results.

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Author wishes to express the gratitude to ever helping teaching faculty of Upgraded Institute of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery of Madras Medical College, Chennai. The research was conducted as a Masters’s thesis and results are given as such. No manipulations of data were done.

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  1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Upgraded Institute of Otorhinolaryngology, Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Madras Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600003, India

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Albina, L. Cartilage Tympanoplasty: A Review on Its Postoperative Outcomes on Hearing. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 74 (Suppl 1), 288–292 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-020-02072-9

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