Modern Clinical Medicine Research

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DOI: 10.22606/mcmr.2018.24001

• Enrico Maria Amadei M.D^*
  Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Audiology, Infermi Hospital, Rimini, Italy
• Beatrice Enrica Fabiano M.D.
  Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Audiology, Infermi Hospital, Rimini, Italy
• Claudio Cola M.D.
  Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Audiology, Infermi Hospital, Rimini, Italy

Myringoplasty is a safe and relatively rapid procedure to close uncomplicated tympanic perforations. Good surgical and functional results are usually expected. In Literature we can find a wider range of success rate of miringoplasty performed in children than in adults, varying from 35 to 94%. We report a retrospective analysis of 15 years experience about 63 cases of type I tympanoplasty performed in children for simple tympanic membrane perforation. In our series of 63 cases, we had a success closure rate of 59/63 cases (94%) with a medium follow-up of 36 months. The Air Bone Gap closure was always found from good to very good. The aim of this study is to report the retrospective analysis of our experience about pediatric myringoplasty for simple tympanic membrane perforation, comparing these data with those published in the Literature.

Pediatric myringoplasty; tympanic perforation; type I tympanoplasty.

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