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Surgical Treatment: The Ear

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Keypoints

  1. 1.

    Surgical restoration of hearing can improve tinnitus complaints in patients with tinnitus associated to conductive hearing loss.

  2. 2.

    Tinnitus is most likely to disappear after stapes surgery.

  3. 3.

    New-onset tinnitus or worsening of a pre-existing tinnitus can occur as an unwanted side effect of middle ear surgery.

  4. 4.

    Some patients with advanced Ménière’s disease might benefit from a surgical approach to their tinnitus.

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Abbreviations

PORP:

Partial ossicular replacement

TORP:

Total ossicular replacement

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  1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93053, Regensburg, Germany

    Tobias Kleinjung

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    Tobias Kleinjung

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Kleinjung, T. (2011). Surgical Treatment: The Ear. In: Møller, A.R., Langguth, B., De Ridder, D., Kleinjung, T. (eds) Textbook of Tinnitus. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-145-5_83

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