A NEW METHOD OF CLOSING THE EUSTACHIAN TUBE IN THE RADICAL MASTOID OPERATION

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Abstract
Failure to secure a dry ear, following the radical mastoid operation, which has for its purpose the cure of suppurative ear disease, is due almost exclusively to an open eustachian tube, the persistence of hyperplastic mucosa and the presence of dead bone. Of these factors the former is the most frequent cause of failure. The matter may be stated in this way: With a patulous tube, a permanently dry ear is impossible, no matter how successful we may be in removing the hyperplastic mucosa and dead bone. Such failures are estimated by different writers at from 10 to 50 per cent. Various methods to secure closure of the tube have been employed, but though the technic of any of them may be as closely followed as possible, the results, so far as concerns closure of the tube, are always uncertain. It is the experience of competent operators that they may

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