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950860

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
1976-10-2
pubmed:abstractText
The preoperative diagnosis of malleus fixation can be made consistently with a pneumatic otoscope. Nontympanosclerotic epitympanic malleus fixation, for the most part, has been corrected by disrupting the ossicular chain and then reconstructing the sound-conducting mechanism. Once the diagnosis of malleus fixation is established, the surgical approach should be modified to cope with the fixed malleus. A wide, inferiorly based tympanotomy flap affords ample access to the epitympanum and permits definitive resolution of the associated conductive hearing loss. Atticotomy and discreet osteotomy can free the fixed malleus and preserve continuity of the osscular chain in over 90 percent of the patients with this syndrome. Experience for 46 patients having bony epitympanic malleus fixation, both congenital and acquired, was examined in concluding that the anatomical continuity of the ossicular chain can and should be maintained in most patients. The residual air-bone gap is less with an intact, though modified, ossicular chain than it is with a chain that has been reconstructed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0023-852X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
86
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1203-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1976
pubmed:articleTitle
Epitympanic malleus fixation: correction without disrupting the ossicular chain.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports