Contents:

Table of Contents

Cartilage Palisade Tympanoplasty

Classification of Tympanoplasty

Cartilage Palisades in Underlay Tympanoplasty

Cartilage Palisades in Onlay Tympanoplasty Indications for Cartilage Strips in Underlay

Crown Cork CartilagePerichondrium

Authors Comments and Recommendations

Postoperative Care and Problems

Inlay Underlay Tympanoplasty Techniques with

Results of Surgery

Tympanoplasty with Broad Cartilage Palisades 103 Indications for Surgery

Underlay Tympanoplasty with Cartilage Foils Problems with Curling

Onlay Tympanoplasty with Cartilage Foils Tympanoplasty with Irradiated Homogenous

Onlay Tympanoplasty with Thick Cartilage Surgical Methods for Closure of Bony Defects

Total Pars Tensa CartilagePerichondrium Tympanic Cavity after a Canal Wall Down

Results of Surgery with Onlay Techniques

Composite Chondroperichondrial Clip Compared with Tympanoplasty with Fascia

Index

Written by a pioneering master in the field, Cartilage Tympanoplasty: Classification of Methods-Techniques-Results, is a comprehensive reference for all the currently used methods of cartilage tympanoplasty. In the opening chapters of the book, Mirko Tos provides a thorough overview of this class of procedures, including a classification of 23 original cartilage tympanoplasty methods. Each of the following chapters offers a detailed exposition of a different method, presenting its definition, indication, graft harvesting and shaping, surgical technique, and an analysis of the anatomical and functional results based on a review of the literature and on personal experience. In the closing chapters, the author discusses long-term outcomes and compares the results of the various cartilage tympanoplasty methods. Mirko Tos has written a remarkable book...The entire community of otologic surgeons will benefit from this contribution.--From the foreword by John Dornhoffer, MD, FACS Common terms and phrases:

air-bone gap annular graft attic retraction bony annulus carti cartilage disk cartilage foils cartilage graft cartilage island graft cartilage palisades cartilage plate cartilage strips cartilage tympanoplasty cholesteatoma chondrium chorda tympani circumferential incision closure columella composite island graft conchal conchal cartilage Dornhoffer drium ear canal bone ear canal skin ear canal wall eardrum remnant edges epithelial flaps epithelium fascia fibrous annulus flap is elevated flaps are replaced footplate full-thickness Gelfoam balls graft is placed half-thickness Heermann incus inferior perforation intact ossicular chain lamina propria Laryngol malleus handle mastoidectomy medial method middle ear on-lay technique otitis media Otolaryngol palisades are placed patients peri perichon perichondrium flap piece of cartilage placement plasty posterosuperior postoperative prosthesis reconstruction removed retroauricular approach scutum secretory otitis shaped Side view skin flaps stapes head superior surgery thickness tion titanium total perforation tragal cartilage tragus tubal function tympanic cavity tympanomeatal flap tympanoplasty type umbo underlay technique undersurface