title: [Improvement of hearing function through ear reoperation. The role of tympanic revision for functional indications].
abstract: Recurrent middle ear disease may carry a high probability of complications, and there is no doubt of the necessity of revision surgery for either cholesteatoma or tumor. However, failures in function should be individually analyzed before a second procedure is decided upon. A pre-requisite for surgical improvement of hearing is adequate tubal and inner ear function. Chronic suppurative otitis media has a higher tendency for reperforation than cholesteatoma. Adhesive otitis indicates poor tubal function. Tympanosclerosis may cause refixation requiring stapedectomy at a second stage. Middle ear fibrosis recurs in about 50% of cases. Post-operative failures such as extrusion of ossicles, lateralization of the tympanic membrane, and blunting of the anterior tympanomeatal angle as well as failures after stapes surgery are discussed.
authors.affiliation: HNO-Klinik, St. Elisabeth-Hospital Bochum.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hildmann
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D004427:Ear Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D004432:Ear, Middle / Q000601:surgery*; D006314:Hearing Loss, Conductive / Q000601:surgery*; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation; D014433:Tympanoplasty / Q000379:methods*