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Clinical Profile of Tubotympanic CSOM and Its Management With Special Reference to Site and Size of Tympanic Membrane Perforation, Eustachian Tube Function and Three Flap Tympanoplasty

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Otitis media is an important and a highly prevalent disease of the middle ear and poses serious health problem world wide especially in developing countries where large percentage of the population lack specialized medical care, suffer from malnutrition and live in poor hygienic environmental conditions. It has been a general view that the hearing loss increases with the size of the perforation, more so if it is in the posterio inferior quadrant. It was found that the maximum average loss occurred at 250 Hz. The hearing loss is less in small perforations (less than 2 mm diameter) then in larger ones; less in perforations touching the manubrium than in those away from it, and also less in perforations of the anterioinferior quadrant than in those on posterio-inferior quadrant. A normally functioning eustachian tube is also an essential physiologic requirement for a healthy middle ear and normal hearing.

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  1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Pravara Rural Hospital and Medical College, Loni, Ahmednagar, 413736, Maharashtra, India

    Nishant Kumar

  2. Department of Anesthesia, Pravara Rural Hospital and Medical College, Loni, Ahmednagar, 413736, Maharashtra, India

    Devashri Chilke

  3. Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, MGIMS, Sevagram, Wardha, Maharashtra, India

    M. P. Puttewar

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Kumar, N., Chilke, D. & Puttewar, M.P. Clinical Profile of Tubotympanic CSOM and Its Management With Special Reference to Site and Size of Tympanic Membrane Perforation, Eustachian Tube Function and Three Flap Tympanoplasty. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 64, 5–12 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-010-0114-5

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