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[Stapedectomy: our results]
A Pérez-Carro Rios1, G Espiña Campos, J I Ibarra Urbieta
1Servicio de Otorrinolaringología, Hospital Xeral-Cíes de Vigo, Pontevedra. adecarro@mundo-r.com
Objective:
The aim of this study is to value the hearing results obtained in our department following stapedectomy and the reasons of primary failures.
Material And Method:
We present a retrospective study of 95 stapedectomies in 82 patients, performed from January 1997 to September 2002 at Hospital Xeral-Cies of Vigo (Pontevedra).
Results:
Medium presurgical audiometric threshold was 65.71 and postsurgical 26.68. Good results were obtained in 84.21% of cases (air-bone gap closure difference under 20 dB), 10.52% had not change in air threshold and the rest deteriorated.
Conclusions:
We compare our results with other authors and we consider that stapedectomy is a safe surgical technique, but it has important complications and they have to be bear in mind to prevent them.
