Surgical Aspects of Congenital Aural Atresia

Congenital stapedial suprastructure fixation with normal footplate mobility: case report

“…The diagnosis of an ossicular malformation without associated external ear malformations requires high resolution temporal CT and exploratory tympanotomy 12 . The footplate can have normal mobility, even with a severe coexisting abnormality, because of its separate development from the otic capsule 13 . Therefore, when performing an exploration tympanotomy with pre-operative CT findings, one must recognise unusual anomalous conditions.…”