Paediatric Cartilage Tympanoplasty: A Two Handed Technique with Our Endoscope Holder

The aim of the study is to evaluate the functional and anatomical results of paediatric sliced cartilage type 1 tympanoplasty using our endoscope holder. It is Retrospective Non Randomized Clinical Study. A total of consecutive 81 children operated from January 2016 to December 2017 for endoscopic type I sliced cartilage tympanoplasty with endoscope holder were included in the study. The study included 44 males and 37 females. The patients ranged from 8 to 18 years. In early follow up period ranging from 24 to 48 months, the graft take up was seen in 76 follow up giving a success rate of 93.82 percent. The pre-operative air–bone gap was 32.34 ± 2.71 dB and the post-operative mean 4 tone air–bone gap at 1 and 2 years was 9.12 ± 2.37 dB and 9.42 ± 1.38 dB respectively. The study reports the good air bone closure and anatomical closure of perforation with sliced cartilage in paediatric tympanoplasty.