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Subtotal Petrosectomy

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Subtotal petrosectomy (STP), with obliteration of the middle ear and mastoid and closure of the external auditory canal (EAC), is an effective solution in mastoid and middle ear diseases that are chronic and recurrent, leave behind a large surgical cavity, exposing vital structures like the dura, carotid, inner ear fluids, or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), with no realistic chance of reconstruction of the conductive apparatus.

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  1. Gruppo Otologico and Mario Sanna Foundation, Piacenza-Rome, Italy

    Gianluca Piras, Wenlong Tang, Antonio Caruso, Lorenzo Lauda, Abdelkader Taibah & Mario Sanna

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  1. Department of Otolaryngology, Clínica Universidad de Los Andes, Santiago, Chile, USA

    Marcos V. Goycoolea

  2. Otolaryngology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

    Sady Selaimen da Costa

  3. Department of Otolaryngology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

    Chris de Souza

  4. Paparella Ear Head & Neck Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Michael M. Paparella

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Piras, G., Tang, W., Caruso, A., Lauda, L., Taibah, A., Sanna, M. (2023). Subtotal Petrosectomy. In: Goycoolea, M.V., Selaimen da Costa, S., de Souza, C., Paparella, M.M. (eds) Textbook of Otitis Media. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40949-3_64

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