1. Incus Window in Transposition
- Author
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William H. Lippy and Arnold G. Schuring
- Subjects
Bone Transplantation ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Incus ,Follow up studies ,Transposition (telecommunications) ,Incus transposition ,Window (computing) ,General Medicine ,Anatomy ,Tympanoplasty ,Transplantation, Autologous ,Otorhinolaryngology ,medicine ,Humans ,Transplantation, Homologous ,Surgery ,Bone level ,business ,Ear Ossicles ,Follow-Up Studies ,Stapes - Abstract
In aiding the positioning of the incus in incus transposition, a hole, the incus window, is drilled completely through the body of the incus. Through the window the surgeon has a visual as well as a tactile reference to the head of the stapes. At one year results show that 182 of 201 patients closed the air-bone gap to within 20 dB of the preoperative bone level.
- Published
- 1975
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