Cartilage Tympanoplasty: the Outcome in 35 Patients

This is a retrospective analysis of the cases that underwent cartilage tympanoplasty for the last 4 years. thirty-five patients with perforated ear drums and chronic otitis media were included in the study. twenty patients were females and 15 were males. the age ranged from 12-65 with a mean of 30.37 years. three patents had bilateral ears operated on making the number of procedures 38 tympanoplasties. all patients except one had type1 tympanoplasty. one patient had tympanoplasty after a previous mastoid surgery (type 3). one operation was done on a recently infected ear. follow up periods were from 6-42 months with a mean of 15 months. all patients had both pre- and post-operative audiograms. the graft take occurred in 30 patients (85.71%). this paper discusses the operative procedure adopted and the outcome of these surgeries.