A comparative study of changes in audiological characteristics when using endoscopic and microscopic stapes surgery in patients with otosclerosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Endoscopic stapes surgery (ESS) is widely used to treat patients with otosclerosis, and accumulating evidence demonstrates that endoscopic stapedotomy is feasible and has similar, and often even better, audiological outcomes compared with microscopic stapedotomy. There is a lack of studies on comparisons of ESS and the audiological outcomes of ESS and microscopic stapes surgery (MSS). Therefore, in the present study, we investigated these to figure out if ESS could be a reasonable alternative treatment for otosclerosis patients.

Methods

This was a cohort study of 65 patients with otosclerosis who underwent ESS (n=30) or MSS (n=35) between 2017 and 2021, whose diagnoses were mainly based on a history of progressive conductive or mixed deafness over 25 dB in the ran

SUBMITTER: Tang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9096422 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature