title: [The cartilage graft in middle ear microsurgery. Indications, technique, results].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The use of cartilage in tympanoplasties in the shape of monolytic cartilage-perichondrium autografts or several particles as a cartilage-palisade.
  
  
  METHODS
  The retrospective analysis concerned 216 clinical cases. The cartilage palisade technique was performed in 163 tympanoplasties. In 53 cases the tympanoplasty was carried out with the use of the monolytic cartilage-perichondrial composite graft: cartilage-island, cartilage-cork or cartilage-mat.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the type I and II of tympanoplasty the air bone gap (ABG) <10dB showed 70% of patients operated with the use of monolytic cartilage-perichondrial composite autografts and 73% using the cartilage-palisade technique.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The usefulness of cartilage in tympanoplasties is much the same in cartilage-palisade technique as well as in monolytic, non-palisade technique.
authors: Klinika Laryngologiczna Szpitala A. Kruppa Kierownik: prof. dr med. J. Lamprecht, Essen, Niemcy.
authors: Romuald
authors: R
authors: Wielgosz
authors: Klinika Laryngologiczna Szpitala A. Kruppa Kierownik: prof. dr med. J. Lamprecht, Essen, Niemcy. Electronic address: mroczkowski.edward@gmail.com.
authors: Edward
authors: E
authors: Mroczkowski
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004425:Ear Cartilage / Q000637:transplantation*; D004432:Ear, Middle / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000379:methods*; D008875:Middle Aged; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D019737:Transplants / Q000637:transplantation*; D018058:Tympanic Membrane Perforation / Q000601:surgery*; D014433:Tympanoplasty / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Cartilage; Ear microsurgery; Tympanoplasty; chrząstka; mikrochirurgia ucha; tympanoplastyka