Stapedotomy Removing Only the Stapes Head and Not the Entire Stapes Superstructure: Long-term Results.

Objective: To describe a new stapedotomy in which is removed only the stapes head not the entire stapes superstructure and its long-term results.

Study Design: Prospective study.

Patients: The study was started on January 2015 and ended on September 2020.

Partial Ossiculoplasty: Malafronte's Double Cartilage Block Versus Incus.

Objectives: To describe the outcomes of Malafronte's double cartilage block (mDCB) and incus autograft protheses, and to determine which prosthesis gives better and lasting hearing results.

Study Design: Prospective study.

Setting: ENT Department of AORN "S.

Stapedotomy: is the color of the footplate important in the choice of the type of perforator?

Objective: To valuate the influence of the color of footplate in the choice of the type of perforator.

Study Design: Prospective study. Level of Evidence 1b.

Fisch's reversal steps stapedotomy: when to use it?

Objective: To determine that the use of Fisch's reversal steps stapedotomy is recommended only when the visible portion of the footplate is blue in all its points before removing the stapes superstructure.

Study Design: Prospective study.

Materials And Methods: This study started on January 2007 and ended on June 2007, when the statistical data reached significance.

New macroscopic classification of stapedio-ovalar otosclerosis: a simplified rating for training in stapedotomy.

Objective: To have a new macroscopic classification of otosclerosis based on appearance variations of the stapes footplate due to the disease and to determine if the color variations are correlated to a minor or major incidence of footplate complications.

Study Design: Retrospective study.

Materials And Methods: From January 2006 to December 2006, 106 patients affected by otosclerosis underwent surgery.

A new double-cartilage block ossiculoplasty: long-term results.

Objectives: To determinate whether ossicular chain reconstruction performed with modified double-cartilage block (DCB) ossiculoplasty used by authors, leaving the intact perichondrium layer on the cartilage surface in contact with tympanic membrane, results in significant hearing results and prevents DCB displacement and DCB loss of stiffness when compared with the original DCB technique described by Luetje and Denninghoff.

Materials And Methods: Sixty-five ossicular reconstructions using DCB ossiculoplasty were performed from 1996 to 2001 in the whole study group. Eight patients had an inadequate follow-up and were excluded from the study.