Publications by authors named "Pierre Montandon"

This article summarizes an opinion on preoperative imaging based upon a personal composite of observations and experience in otological and skull base surgery that spans 35 years in several Swiss and US academic centers and 10 years in private practice.

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Teaching stapes surgery.

Adv Otorhinolaryngol

April 2007

This paper is a review of concepts and methods presented as a tribute to a great pioneer and teacher, Harold Frederic Schuknecht. His book entitled Stapedectomy, published in 1971, is based on past experience of '6,200 stapedectomy operations over a period of 13 years' and on experience gained from teaching the procedure to numerous residents and fellows. His concepts are still valid and represent a solid base for teachers and students of this elegant but precarious procedure.

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The objective of this study was to evaluate, over the long-term, the anatomic and functional outcome of canal wall-down mastoidectomy performed for chronic otitis media with cholesteatoma and chronic otomastoiditis resistant to all conservative treatment. The study was made through a retrospective review of 338 cases of consecutive primary canal wall-down mastoidectomies performed between 1974 and 1998. Included were 259 cases with sufficient data.

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