title: Imaging of the postoperative middle ear.
abstract: The aim of this article is twofold: (a) to present the principles and the indications of surgical treatment of middle ear pathologies; and (b) to review the imaging findings after middle ear surgery, including the normal postoperative aspects and imaging findings in patients presenting with unsatisfactory surgical results or with suspicion of postoperative complications. This review is intentionally restricted to the most common diseases involving the middle ear: chronic otitis media and otosclerosis. In these specific fields of interest, CT and MR imaging play a very important role in the postoperative follow-up and in the work-up of surgical failures and complications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Imaging, Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild, 25 rue Manin, 75940 Paris, France. mwilliams@fo-rothschild.fr
authors.forename: Marc T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Denis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ayache
mesh_terms: D018424:Cholesteatoma, Middle Ear / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000175:diagnosis; D010033:Otitis Media / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000601:surgery*; D010040:Otosclerosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed