Experiences in homograft membrane tympanoplasty.
Experience of a short series of 37 cases of tympanoplasty involving the use of a homograft tympanic membrane is presented, with a discussion of the problems involved. The initial results correspond to the earlier series' anatomical success rates and indicate that these grafts will become widely used as an effective method of tympanoplasty.
D004429:Ear Ossicles / Q000637:transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D009926:Organ Preservation; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D014432:Tympanic Membrane / Q000637:transplantation*; D014433:Tympanoplasty / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*