title: Myringoplasty in children.
abstract: The fact that myringoplasty in children is relatively less satisfactory than in adults, motivated us to perform a retrospective study, gathering material on 53 children aged 4-12 years who underwent 68 operations to determine if any pre-operative or intra-operative parameters might predict the outcome of surgery. Results show that the overall success rate of Type I tympanoplasty was 78%, and that the majority of failures occurred later in the follow-up course. Furthermore, age and technique of operations played the most important roles in the results. The status of the non-operated ear did not influence the surgical outcome. Finally, revision myringoplasty was equally as successful as the primary operations.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D007557:Israel; D008297:Male; D009225:Myringoplasty; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014433:Tympanoplasty