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Tympanoplasty surgery and prophylactic antibiotics: surgical results
D G John1, W V Carlin, T H Lesser
1Department of Otolaryngology, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.
Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences
|June 1, 1988
Abstract:
This paper reports a multicentre, controlled, blind, prospective, randomized study into the use of prophylactic systemic antibiotics in myringoplasty surgery. A total of 130 individuals were randomly allocated to either an antibiotic or a non-antibiotic group. Each individual was clinically and audiometrically assessed preoperatively, and 8 weeks postoperatively. It was found that systemic prophylactic antibiotics did not influence either the success rate of myringoplasty surgery or the audiometric result.