Current Concepts in Pediatric Tympanoplasty

Abstract

Educational objectives: To understand the indications, contraindications, risks, benefits, optimal timing, and informed consent issues for tympanoplasty in the pediatric population, particularly as these issues differ from those for adults; and to understand surgical options for dealing with perforation, atelectasis, ossicular problems, eustachian tube dysfunction, and mastoid disease in the pediatric patient.