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Mastoid obliteration.

Mehta RP, Harris JP

Department of Otology and Laryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Mastoid obliteration is commonly performed to reduce the size of mastoidectomy cavity following canal wall-down tympanomastoidectomy for chronic otitis media. The indications and techniques for mastoid obliteration as well as total tympanomastoid obliteration will be reviewed. The vast majority of obliteration techniques consist of either local flaps or free grafts (bone, cartilage, fat, hydroxyapatite). The radiographic and histopathologic features of mastoid obliteration will also be reviewed.

Published 13 November 2006 in Otolaryngol Clin North Am, 39(6): 1129-42.
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