Main description:

A superbly illustrated atlas of cartilage tympanoplasty methods

Written by a pioneering master in the field, Cartilage Tympanoplasty: Classification of Methods-Techniques-Results, is a comprehensive reference for all the currently used methods of cartilage tympanoplasty. In the opening chapters of the book, Mirko Tos provides a thorough overview of this class of procedures, including a classification of 23 original cartilage tympanoplasty methods. Each of the following chapters offers a detailed exposition of a different method, presenting its definition, indication, graft harvesting and shaping, surgical technique, and an analysis of the anatomical and functional results based on a review of the literature and on personal experience. In the closing chapters, the author discusses long-term outcomes and compares the results of the various cartilage tympanoplasty methods.

"Mirko Tos has written a remarkable book...The entire community of otologic surgeons will benefit from this contribution."--From the foreword by John Dornhoffer, MD, FACS

Contents:

1. History of cartilage tympanoplasty 2. Definitions and classifications 3. Approaches. Harvesting the cartilage 4. Cartilage palisades in underlay tympanoplasty techniques 5. Cartilage palisades in on-lay tympanoplasty techniques 6. Tympanoplasty with broad cartilage palisades 7. Cartilage stripes in underlay tympanoplasty techniques 8. Cartilage stripes in on-lay tympanoplasty techniques 9. Tympanoplasty with cartilage foils and thin plates 10. Inlay butterfly cartilage tympanoplasty 11. Composite chondroperichondrial clip tympanoplasty: The triple C technique 12. Superior cartilage-perichondrium composite island graft tympanoplasty. 13. Superior and posterior cartilage-perichondrium composite island graft tympanoplasty 14. Posterior cartilage- perichondrium composite island graft tympanoplasty 15. Total pars tensa cartilage-perichondrium composite island graft tympanoplasty 16. Annular cartilage-perichondrium composite graft tympanoplasty 17. Crowncork cartilage perichondrium composite graft tympanoplasty 18. In-lay on-lay tympanoplasty techniques with composite cartilage-perichondrium island graft 19. Cartilage shield T-tube tympanoplasty 20. Underlay tympanoplasty techniques with cartilage-perichondrium composite island graft 21. On-lay tympanoplasty techniques with cartilage perichondrium composite island graft 22. In-lay underlay tympanoplasty techniques with composite cartilage- perichondrium island graft 23. Cartilage plates in tympanoplasty 24. Experimental and basic research and cartilage tympanoplasty 25. Fate of the implanted cartilage grafts