stapedectomy
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Stapedectomy is a surgical procedure in which the stapes bone is removed from the middle ear and replaced with a prosthesis.
Research
6,158 papers- Stapedectomy Versus Stapedotomy.Otolaryngologic clinics of North America · 2018
- Revision stapedectomy.Otolaryngologic clinics of North America · 2006
- Revision stapedectomy.Current opinion in otolaryngology & head and neck surgery · 2003
- [Revision surgery after stapedectomy].HNO · 2023
- Revision stapedectomy.The Laryngoscope · 1993
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Stapedectomy process and results
- Indications
- Contraindications
- Complications
- Stapedotomy
- Stapedectomy vs. stapedotomy
- Endoscopic Stapedotomy
- History
- Anatomy gallery
- See also
- Footnotes
- External links
Stapedectomy is a surgical procedure in which the stapes bone is removed from the middle ear and replaced with a prosthesis.
If the stapes footplate is fixed in position, rather than being normally mobile, the result is a conductive hearing loss. There are two major causes of stapes fixation. The first is a disease process of abnormal mineralization of the temporal bone called otosclerosis. The second is a congenital malformation of the stapes.
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