title: [Modified butterfly cartilage tympanoplasty: retrospective study on 26 patients].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the results of inlay butterfly tympanoplasty on dry perforation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospective case study.
  
  
  METHODS
  26 patient (14 male, 12 female), mean age 38 years, ranged from 9 to 73. Mean follow up: 20 months.
  
  
  METHODS
  Inlay cartilage butterfly tympanoplasty performed under general or local anesthesia according to the technique originally described by Eavey, with our specific modifications (use of a dermatological punch).
  
  
  RESULTS
  92.3% of perforation closure was obtained; 2 residual perforations and 1 non-epithelialisation were observed. No iatrogenic cholesteatoma was observed. The mean preoperative to post operative four-tone air bone gap improved from 27.67 to 20.1 (mean gain 7.5).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Inlay butterfly cartilage tympanoplasty is a safe, efficient and easy technique. This technique need more prospective evaluation, and its place among other techniques of tympanoplasty needs to be precised.
authors: Institut Arthur Vernes, 36 rue d'Assas, 75006 Paris, France.
authors: I
authors: I
authors: Belhossine
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Pezzettigotta
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Genty
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Erminy
authors: J B
authors: JB
authors: Lecanu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002356:Cartilage / Q000601:surgery* / Q000637:transplantation; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008954:Models, Biological; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D018058:Tympanic Membrane Perforation / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery*; D014433:Tympanoplasty / Q000379:methods* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D055815:Young Adult