include the use of medications and delaying surgery. However, these alternative methods carry their own risk of complications and a varying degree of success.
Mastoidectomy is the medical term meaning surgical removal of the mastoid.
A mastoidectomy is performed with the patient fully asleep under general anesthesia
The outcome of a mastoidectomy is a clean, healthy ear without infection. However, both a modified radical and a radical mastoidectomy usually result in less than normal hearing.
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Mastoidectomy is performed to remove infected air cells within the mastoid bone caused by mastoiditis, ear infection, or an inflammatory disease of the middle ear (cholesteatoma).
Topical antibiotics are then placed in the ear.
There are several different types of mastoidectomy procedures, depending on the amount of infection present
persistent ear discharge infections, including meningitis or brain abscesses hearing loss
The cells are open spaces containing air that are located throughout the mastoid bone.
Yes, if the surgeon leisonned the oval window, or accidentally a perilymphatic fistula was created.