Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
November 2019
With large number of grafts available for ossiculoplasty, choice becomes difficult. An ideal graft should be safe, easily available, cost efficient, with good hearing results, uptake and low extrusion rates. The ear nose and throat surgeon is still facing the indecision over type of graft to be selected.
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July 2013
Unlabelled: The larynx serves to protect the lower airways, facilitates respiration and plays a key role in phonation. Based on anatomic location, the larynx is divided into the supraglottic larynx, the glottis or glottic larynx, and the subglottic larynx. The tumours of larynx can be divided into benign or malignant.
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June 2012
Benign nerve cell tumours have been given various names like schwannoma, neurilemmoma, neurinoma, neurofibroma, spindle cell tumours etc. Extra cranial head and neck schwannomas usually present as solitary and well-demarcated lesions. The lesion can cause secondary symptoms, such as nasal obstruction, dysphasia, and hoarseness, depending upon the location of the lesion.
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December 2009
Background: Myringoplasty is one of the various surgical techniques for the management of chronic supurative otitis media of tubotympanic type (CSOM-TT). The presence of a perforation of tympanic membrane with intermittent discharge and hearing loss of conductive nature are the indications of myringoplasty. Myringoplasty can be performed by any of the three approaches, i.
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