Obliteration of radical cavities with autogenous cortical bone; long-term results

Abstract

Background: To evaluate the long-term surgical outcome(s) in patients who have undergone canal-wall-down operation with mastoid and epitympanic obliteration using autologous cortical bone chips, bone pate and meatally-based musculoperiosteal flap technique.

Single-Stage Mastoid Obliteration in Cholesteatoma Surgery and Recurrent and Residual Disease Rates

“…After removing duplicates, another 190 articles were excluded based on title and abstract. The full-text articles of the remaining 146 citations were assessed for eligibility, resulting in 22 studies (Figure) that met our previously stated criteria.…”

“…The relevance criteria resulted in scores of 0 to 8, with a median score of 4 (where the maximum possible score was 8). Combination of both MINOR scores and relevance criteria resulted in quality of 9 studies classified as "low," 15,[17][18][19][20]22,24,25,28 the quality of 7 studies classified as "medium," 11,12,14,16,21,23,31 and the quality of 6 studies classified as "high." 13,26,27,29,30,32 Subsequently, articles graded as being of low quality were excluded from further analysis (Table 2).…”