title: Influence of coexisting myringosclerosis on myringoplasty outcomes in children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To obtain information on the success rate of tympanoplasty with concomitant myringosclerosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  The medical records of 40 children with myringosclerosis (23 girls, 17 boys; age range six to 16 years, mean age 9.85 years) who had undergone primary tympanoplasty were retrospectively studied. Surgical success was defined as the perforation remaining closed 12 months post-operatively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Sclerotic plaques occupied whole remnant eardrums in 17 patients, and were located in various parts of the eardrum in 23. Tympanosclerosis associated with myringosclerosis was present in six patients. The success rate of primary tympanoplasty was 92.5 per cent. All three surgical failures were observed in girls with marginal perforations. These children underwent successful revision procedures for their residual perforations, variously at four, eight and 10 months after the initial surgery.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Appropriate freshening of the perforation edges, with removal of sclerotic plaques, can result in a high rate of successful closure of perforated tympanic membrane with coexisting myringosclerosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Sheba Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel. sabim@bezeqint.net
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Migirov
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Volkov
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009225:Myringoplasty; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012598:Sclerosis; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014432:Tympanic Membrane / Q000473:pathology*; D018058:Tympanic Membrane Perforation / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014433:Tympanoplasty