title: The relevance of using tragal cartilage in tympanoplasty.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of ENT, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gilain
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gersdorff
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Decat
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Garin
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Phillips
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007817:Laryngeal Cartilages / Q000637:transplantation*; D014432:Tympanic Membrane / Q000601:surgery*; D014433:Tympanoplasty