title: [Surgical treatment of the functional obstruction of eustachian tube of middle-aged and aging people].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To expore the effect and the way of palatosapingeus tendon-shortening surgery to treat the functional obstruction of eustachian tube of middle-aged and aging people.
  
  
  METHODS
  Seven cases of palatosapingeus tendon-shortening surgery were analyzed retrospectively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After operations the symptoms of all cases were relieved in a week. The tympanogram returned to type "A". The audiogram showed that the airbone gap disappeared. The shape of tympanic membrance returned to normal state. None of them recured in one-three year following up.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The effect of palatosapingeus tendon-shortening surgery is satisfactory so long as its surgical indication is correctly selected.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, the First People's Hospital of Xinxiang, Xinxiang 453000.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Fu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004427:Ear Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D005064:Eustachian Tube / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010034:Otitis Media with Effusion / Q000601:surgery*; D013517:Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures; D012189:Retrospective Studies