Table of Contents:
  • The Chronic Ear
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Master Glossary
  • Part 1. The Fundamentals of Chronic Ear Disease
  • 1. Chronic Ear Disease in the Modern Era: Evolution of Treatment, Epidemiology, and Classification
  • 2. Eustachian Tube Dysfunction, Mucosal Gas Exchange, and Effusion
  • 3. Tympanic Membrane Wound Healing and Epithelial Migration
  • 4. Pathophysiology of Cholesteatoma
  • 5. Microbiology of Chronic Ear Disease
  • 6. Histopathology of Chronic Otitis Media
  • 7. Surgical Anatomy Relevant to the Chronic Ear
  • 8. Biomaterials in Tympanomastoid Surgery
  • 9. Middle Ear Mechanics in Hearing Reconstruction
  • Part 2. Clinical Evaluation and Office Management of Chronic Ear Disease
  • 10. Pearls in Audiovestibular Assessment
  • 11. Radiographic Evaluation of Chronic Ear Disease
  • 12. Inflammatory Conditions and Systemic Diseases Affecting the Middle Ear
  • 13. Myringitis
  • 14. Office Evaluation and Management of a CanalWall-Down Mastoid Cavity
  • 15. Tubo-Tympanic Diseases: Retraction, Atelectasis, and Middle Ear Effusion
  • 16. Evaluation and Nonsurgical Management of Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media
  • 17. Intratemporal and Intracranial Complications of Otitis Media
  • Part 3. Introduction to Surgical Management of Chronic Ear Disease
  • 18. General Principles of Surgery for Chronic Ear Disease
  • 19. Tympanostomy Tubes
  • 20. Canalplasty and Meatoplasty
  • 21. Cholesteatoma Dissection: Problems and Solutions
  • Part 4. Roundtable on Tympanic Membrane Reconstruction
  • 22. Overview and Introduction
  • 23. Underlay and Related Techniques
  • 24. Overlay Tympanoplasty Technique
  • 25. Cartilage Tympanoplasty
  • Part 5. Roundtable on Ossiculoplasty
  • 26. Overview and Introduction
  • 27. Reconstruction of the Incudostapedial Articulation.
  • 28. Autograft Ossicular Reconstruction
  • 29. Ossiculoplasty with Synthetic PORPS and TORPS
  • 30. The Malleus in Ossicular Reconstruction
  • 31. Surgical Management of the Fixed Stapes in Chronic Ear Disease
  • Part 6. Roundtable on Tympanomastoidectomy
  • 32. Overview and Introduction
  • 33. Canal Wall-Up Techniques
  • 34. Epitympanectomy
  • 35. Canal Wall-Down Mastoidectomy
  • Part 7. Roundtable on Hybrid Tympanomastoid Surgical Techniques
  • 36. Overview and Introduction
  • 37. Retrograde Technique for Management of Cholesteatoma
  • 38. Canal Wall Removal and Replacement with Obliteration
  • 39. Soft-Wall Canal Reconstruction
  • 40. Canal Wall Reconstruction Using the Titanium Mesh Cage
  • Part 8. Special Topics and New Horizons in Surgery for Chronic Ear Disease
  • 41. Mastoid Cavity Obliteration
  • 42. Skull Base Approaches in Chronic Ear Surgery
  • 43. Implantable Hearing Devices and Chronic Otitis Media
  • 44. Endoscopic Ear Surgery
  • 45. Eustachian Tuboplasty
  • 46. Tympanic Membrane Tissue Engineering
  • 47. Chronic Otitis Media in the Setting of Congenital Ear Disease
  • 48. Skin Grafting in the Management of Chronic Ear Disease
  • Index.