title: Long-term results of tympanic membrane repair.
abstract: Long-term results of tympanic membrane repair were analyzed in 605 patients operated upon from 1970 to 1975. By survival life table analysis, 81% closure of perforations was found at 11 years, and only 74% of patients had normally healed tympanic membranes. Children less than 10 years of age and with anterior perforations healed more poorly. A second group of patients--all with anterior perforations operated upon from 1982 to 1984-showed autologous temporalis fascia to be superior to homograft dura as the graft material. Analysis of results also showed a 60% chance of perforation closure at revision operation. These results are believed to represent an accurate and realistic assessment of tympanic membrane repair by use of survival life table analysis.
mesh_terms: D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006309:Hearing; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D001261:Pulmonary Atelectasis / Q000209:etiology; D012086:Reoperation; D014432:Tympanic Membrane / Q000601:surgery*; D014433:Tympanoplasty