Surgery for Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media

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WITH the advent of the operating microscope, microsurgery and antibiotics, otology has rapidly developed into a sophisticated subspecialty involved in the eradication of chronic infection from the mastoid and middle-ear spaces, at the same time attempting to restore or improve hearing by reconstructive procedures on the tympanic membrane and ossicular chain.Cases of chronic suppurative otitis media are usually divided into two main pathologic groups: the benign or nondangerous and the dangerous bone-invading chronic suppurations. The benign type is characterized by a central perforation involving the pars tensa of the tympanic membrane. Such perforations are usually caused by acute necrotic . . .

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