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15162005

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-5-26
pubmed:abstractText
In patients with middle ear malformations, one can expect an improvement in hearing following ear surgery. Thus, it is crucial for the ear surgeon to have an increased awareness of this disease. For a better understanding of this condition, 38 patients who underwent ear surgery were studied. All patients had congenital ossicular malformations but with an intact external ear. On the basis of our intra-operative observations, 15 cases were assigned to group A (single malformation) and 23 cases to group B (multiple malformations). The pre-operative air-conduction threshold in group B patients was higher than that in group A. Pre-operatively in group A 2 out of 20 ears had mild, 17 had moderate and 1 had severe hearing loss (HL). In group B, out of 25 ears, 3 had mild, 13 had moderate and 9 had severe HL. Post-operatively in group A, 2 had normal hearing, 16 had mild, 2 had moderate and none had severe HL. In group B, postoperatively 1 had normal hearing, 18 had mild, 4 moderate and 2 severe HL. Therefore, in patients with multiple middle ear malformations, the surgeon should know that the prospect of an improvement in the hearing threshold is rather low even after surgical reconstruction.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0301-1569
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2004 S. Karger AG, Basel
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
66
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
74-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Congenital malformations of the middle ear with an intact external ear: a review of 38 cases.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Otolaryngology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports