Stapedectomy
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title:
Stapedectomy
text:
Stapedectomy is a surgical procedure in which the stapes bone is removed from the middle ear and replaced with a prosthesis. If the stapes footplate is fixed in position, rather than being normally mobile, the result is a conductive hearing loss. There are two major causes of stapes fixation. The first is a disease process of abnormal mineralization of the temporal bone called otosclerosis. The second is a congenital malformation of the stapes. In both of these situations, it is possible to impr
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Surgical procedure of the middle ear
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stapedectomy
date created:
2004-02-10T07:23:22Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T01:01:22Z
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