title: Reduced mastoidectomy complications with an open meatoplasty stent.
abstract: Open-tube stents were compared with standard petroleum gauze packs in meatoplasties after canal-wall-down mastoid surgery to determine whether any difference existed in postoperative complications. Tube stents were associated with much lower incidences of postoperative meatoplasty stenosis and postauricular wound complications in this series.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425, USA.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Vincent
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Funcik
authors.forename: W Y
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Adkins
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004424:Ear Canal / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008416:Mastoid / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D015607:Stents / Q000009:adverse effects*