Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 3

Tympanoplasty with and without Mastoidectomy for Non-Cholesteatomatous Chronic Otitis Media

  • Author:
  • K. Mallikarjuna Swamy1, Vasudeva Murthy C.R.2
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 65 to 67

1Assistant Professor, Dept of E.N.T., S.S.Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Davangere-577005

2Assistant Professor, Dept of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, S.S. Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Davangere-577005

Online published on 10 September, 2012.

Abstract

Chronic otitis media is an inflammatory process of the mucoperiosteal lining of the middle ear space and mastoid. Infection represents the single major cause for the failure of tympanoplasty and can result from a hidden mastoid disease. Cortical mastoidectomy is an effective means of repneumatizing the mastoid and eradicating the mastoid source of infection. The effect of mastoidectomy on patients without evidence of active infection remains highly debated and unproven.

Keywords

Type I tympanoplasty, Cortical mastoidectomy