Some reasons for failure in tympanoplasty
Schobel, H.
Laryngologie Rhinologie Otologie 58(7): 583-591
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0340-1588 PMID: 481037 Document Number: 152712
The reasons for failures in tympanoplasty are classified and discussed as anatomical or pathological ones and those, that rise from method and technique. A main cause insists in the pathopolymorphism of the chronic purulent otitis media and the discrepancy of clinical impression and pathological reality. The author wishes to encourage the surgeons to a more radical technique by these examples and to the use of new methods in the field of reconstructive surgery of the middle ear.