Objectives:To evaluate the success of pediatric endoscopic and endoscopically assisted transcanal cartilage inlay tympanoplasty.Methods:Retrospective review of single surgeon experience.Results:During a 3 year period,...Objectives:To evaluate the success of pediatric endoscopic and endoscopically assisted transcanal cartilage inlay tympanoplasty.Methods:Retrospective review of single surgeon experience.Results:During a 3 year period,30 children underwent 31 endoscopic or endoscopically assisted transcanal tympanoplasties by the senior surgeon using tragal cartilage/perichondrial inlay grafts.There were 22 boys and 8 girls,ranging in age from 3.5 to 17 years (median 6 years).All tragal cartilage grafts (31/31;100％) survived.Twenty-seven surgeries (27/31;82％) resulted in an intact drum (17/31;55％) or a microperforation (10/31;32％).In four cases (4/31;13％) significant perforations formed in previously unaffected portions of the drum.Conclusion:Transcanal endoscopic cartilage inlay tympanoplasty offers a practical,minimally invasive approach to tympanoplasty for children of any age.It avoids postauricular or endaural incisions,tympanomeatal flap elevation,and canalplasty.Graft survival is uniform.Microperforation at the graft margins remained in 1/3 of children.Technical modifications may lead to higher rates of tympanic closure.展开更多
文摘Objectives:To evaluate the success of pediatric endoscopic and endoscopically assisted transcanal cartilage inlay tympanoplasty.Methods:Retrospective review of single surgeon experience.Results:During a 3 year period,30 children underwent 31 endoscopic or endoscopically assisted transcanal tympanoplasties by the senior surgeon using tragal cartilage/perichondrial inlay grafts.There were 22 boys and 8 girls,ranging in age from 3.5 to 17 years (median 6 years).All tragal cartilage grafts (31/31;100％) survived.Twenty-seven surgeries (27/31;82％) resulted in an intact drum (17/31;55％) or a microperforation (10/31;32％).In four cases (4/31;13％) significant perforations formed in previously unaffected portions of the drum.Conclusion:Transcanal endoscopic cartilage inlay tympanoplasty offers a practical,minimally invasive approach to tympanoplasty for children of any age.It avoids postauricular or endaural incisions,tympanomeatal flap elevation,and canalplasty.Graft survival is uniform.Microperforation at the graft margins remained in 1/3 of children.Technical modifications may lead to higher rates of tympanic closure.
