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87th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

German Society of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

04.05. - 07.05.2016, Düsseldorf

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Endoscopic trans-canal cartilage tympanoplsty

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  • corresponding author Ahmed El Batawi - Kasr Alaini Hospitals, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
  • Nabil Galal - Kasr Alaini Hospitals, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
  • Khaled Harhash - Kasr Alaini Hospitals, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
  • Ahmed Abd El Warith - Kasr Alaini Hospitals, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde, Kopf- und Hals-Chirurgie. 87. Jahresversammlung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde, Kopf- und Hals-Chirurgie. Düsseldorf, 04.-07.05.2016. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2016. Doc16hnod297

doi: 10.3205/16hnod297, urn:nbn:de:0183-16hnod2976

Published: March 30, 2016

© 2016 El Batawi et al.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. See license information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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Introduction: The Tympanic Membrane (TM) plays an important role in the physiology and the patho-physiology of chronic inflammatory middle ear diseases. The TM perforations significantly impair the quality of life for millions of patients. With the advent of endoscopy, ear surgery has gained new momentum. We discuss in this study the opportunity of using the endoscopy not only as a cheaper alternative to the microscope, but also a superior and more effective tool in managing cases of CSOM (safe type) in certain conditions.

Methods: Doing Trans-canal Endoscopic Butterfly or underlay Cartilage Tympanoplsty for 25 patients having a central perforation of any size other than subtotal and total perforations. The graft was taken from the tragal cartilage.

Results: Mean operations time was 20 minutes with (23/25) completely healed perforation.

Conclusions: Ear Endoscopy is an effective reliable speedy technique and much cheaper alternative to the microscope.

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