Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53040#.VLSF38nQrzE Author(s) Kartik Parelkar , Smita Nagle , Mohan Jagade , Vandana Thorawade , Poonam Khairnar , Anoop Attakil , Madhavi Pandare , Rajanala Nataraj , Reshma Hanwate , Rajesh Kar Affiliation(s) Department of ENT, Grant Government Medical College & Sir J J Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, India . ABSTRACT In 1994, the American Otological Society reported favourable experience with composite cartilage shield tympanoplasty. The tragal cartilage with a grommet inserted in it was used for tympanoplasty in our patient with unilateral CSOM, supposedly because of severe chronic eustachian tube dysfunction. The marriage of cartilage tympanoplasty with grommet insertion was aimed to add the advantages and abolish the disadvantages of both the procedures. In 1990 Lary Hall first introduced the “long term ventilation of the middle ear” with a T-tu...
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