The relevance of using tragal cartilage in tympanoplasty.
Chronic endotympanic depression is a pathological situation which leads to tympanic atelectasis, retraction pockets and cholesteatoma. It is also at the origin of tympanoplasty failure. Tragal composite perichondrium-cartilage graft is a procedure which gives good results in these difficult surgical cases.
Gilain
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Department of ENT, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
Gersdorff
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Decat
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Garin
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Phillips
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D006801:Humans; D007817:Laryngeal Cartilages / Q000637:transplantation*; D014432:Tympanic Membrane / Q000601:surgery*; D014433:Tympanoplasty