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[Two terms tympanoplasty in chronic suppurative otitis media]
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Shanghai First People's Hospital, Shanghai 200080.
Objective:
To explore the clinical manifestations and therapeutic effects of treating chronic suppurative otitis media with two terms tympanoplasty.
Method:
36 patients were retrospectively analyzed. The criterions of success are air room in middle ear, intact eardrum and decrease of A-B gape in audiometry.
Result:
32 cases of all patients got successful effects, 4 cases failed. The main cause of failure is to fail forming air room in middle ear.
Conclusion:
The two term's tympanoplasty can save the residual hearing in most patient. But it is difficult to get successful result if more mucous membrane in the middle ear disappeared.
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