Homograft stapes in middle ear surgery.
Descriptions are given of various uses of stapes homografts in tympanoplasty on ears with missing stapedial arch. The use of homograft stapes-incus assembly, placing the head of the homograft stapes on the patient's own footplate and on top of that an incus, is a method which at long sight has proved to afford better results than the use of an incus columella.
D004429:Ear Ossicles / Q000637:transplantation*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007188:Incus / Q000637:transplantation; D013199:Stapes / Q000637:transplantation*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D014433:Tympanoplasty / Q000379:methods*