stapedectomy
Sign in to saveStapedectomy is a surgical procedure in which the stapes bone is removed from the middle ear and replaced with a prosthesis.
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- Stapedectomy process and results
- Indications
- Contraindications
- Complications
- Stapedotomy
- Stapedectomy vs. stapedotomy
- Endoscopic Stapedotomy
- History
- Anatomy gallery
- See also
- Footnotes
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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.
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.