Gelfoam plug tympanoplasty concomitant with removal of retained ventilation tubes

Grommets in otitis media with effusion: the most frequent operation in children. But is it associated with significant complications?

“…The results seem to be encouraging [33,55,64]. However, even immediate repair of the perforation following the removal of a long-term tube may still result in a high recurrence rate [80].…”

“…Various methods have been tried to either avoid persistent perforations or to accelerate the healing process, including freshening the perforation's edge, tape-patch techniques using Steri-Strips, gelfoam or gelfilm or treatment with trichloroacetic acid [1,33,55,64,80]. The results seem to be encouraging [33,55,64].…”

Preparation of reduced graphene oxide/gelatin composite films with reinforced mechanical strength

“…For example, gelatin is the most important and dominant material in medicinal capsules [32,33], although cellulose and other non-gelatin capsules have recently emerged [34]. Gelatin sponges are used as hemostatic materials [35,36] in surgery and antiadhesion materials [37,38] to prevent postoperative adhesion. Gelatin films can be used as edible packaging films [39,40], nutritional membranes [41,42] and biomaterials [43][44][45].…”

A systematic review of concomitant interventions to prevent persistent perforations following the removal of long-term ventilation tubes

“…This is to act as a scaffold for the migration of epithelium and consequent closure of the defect. The materials used in previous studies have included silastic sheeting [12], gelfoam patching [13,20], gelfilm patching [6,13,20,23], gelfoam plug [14], steri-strip TM (3 M) or paper patching [5,6,[15][16][17][18][19], fat plug [6,21] and trichloroacetic acid [22]. The majority of these studies (see Table 1) were retrospective reviews and only one [12] was a randomised non-blinded controlled trial in which the incidence of persistent perforation was observed following freshening of the edges of the perforation and freshening of the edges with application of silastic sheeting to the defect.…”