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The effect of fascia and free skin graft on the healing of mastoid cavity after canal wall down mastoidectomy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 October 2021
Abstract
Post-mastoidectomy delayed cavity healing is a challenge to manage. This study aimed to cut down healing time with a simple technique (fascia with a skin graft) and compared it with controls without this technique.
The current study was a prospective non-randomised controlled study, conducted in a tertiary referral hospital. Thirty cases and 30 controls with squamosal type chronic otitis media were studied.
By the end of first month, 23.3 per cent of cases had healed compared with 3.3 per cent of controls. At the third month follow up, 83.3 per cent of cases and 53.3 per cent of controls had healed. At the sixth month follow up, 93.3 per cent of cases and 86 per cent of controls had healed.
Healing of the mastoid cavity, as evidenced by epithelialisation and formation of a dry cavity, was faster in cases that received the graft when compared with controls without the graft.
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Dr V K Bhat takes responsibility for the integrity of the content of the paper
Presented at 72nd Annual Conference of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India, 10–12 January 2020, Nagpur, India.
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