title: Fenestration tympanoplasty: an adjunctive technique for hearing restoration.
abstract: Two-staged fenestration tympanoplasty is a form of total tympanoplasty type V that incorporates the mastoidotympanomastoidectomy (radical mastoidectomy) and revives the Lempert horizontal semicircular canal fenestration operation. It is valuable when the usual and customary single or two-staged tympanoplasty procedures fail to conserve or restore hearing in the operative management of otitic disease. Two-staged fenestration tympanoplasty is also indicated in audiometric failure tympanoplasties, in oval window surgery failures in the absence of supporting ossicles and in the presence of a fibrosed or sclerosed oval window, and in severe otitic oval window-round window-posterior tympanic recess-tympanic orifice eustachian tube infection, which can only be completely removed by the mastoidotympanectomy. Total tympanoplasty type V as described here has produced serviceable hearing for human conversation and the speech frequencies to the 15-dB to 25-dB levels, and a 20 dB average in 19 of 21 patients operated on for a 90% success rate.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005276:Fenestration, Labyrinth / Q000379:methods*; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008416:Mastoid / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000601:surgery; D014432:Tympanic Membrane / Q000601:surgery; D014433:Tympanoplasty / Q000379:methods*