The versatility of presculptured homograft incus prostheses.
A twelve-year experience with banked homograft ossicles has developed into a system of presculptured incus allografts adapted for the correction of many ossicular defects encountered in tympanoplasty and revision stapes surgery. The standardized preparation of a number of variations of modeled incus prostheses for an operating room bank by a well-trained ear homograft laboratory technician has been an effective and time-saving technique.
D004429:Ear Ossicles / Q000637:transplantation*; D006801:Humans; D007188:Incus / Q000637:transplantation*; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D013201:Stapes Surgery; D013997:Time Factors; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D014433:Tympanoplasty