[How to avoid strictures of the external auditory meatus after tympanoplasty with the modified enaural incision by Heermann (author's transl)].
Report on a surgical technique to avoid strictures of the external auditory meatus with the enaural method on tympanoplasty. A pedicle flap is formed by a modified short Heermann's incision on the beginning of the bony and cartilagenous external auditory meatus. During the operation it is fixed by a retractor and it is readapted at the end of the operation. The skin of the external auditory meatus which is situated medial of this pedicle flap can be used for transplantation to replace the tympanic membrane without danger of stenosis. The authors has had 15 years of positive experience with this method.
D001306:Auditory Pathways; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000517:prevention & control; D004106:Dilatation / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014433:Tympanoplasty / Q000009:adverse effects
Zur Vermeidung von Gehörgangsstenosen nach Tympanoplastiken mit modifiziertem enauralem Hilfs-schnitt nach H. Heermann.