Abstract

An Observational Study was undertaken at Department of Otorhinolaryngology,. The aim of this study was to observethe outcome of cartilage tympanoplasty for tubotympanic type of CSOM. All the patients attending ENT OPD at SIMSwithin the age group of 11-60 years, irrespective of sex with tubotympanic CSOM either unilateral or bilateral wereincluded in this study. In our study of 80 patients, 40 patients had graft uptake after disease clearance and 8 had failureof graft uptake without chronic otorrhoea and 2 had failure with chronic otorrhoea. Through this study we concludedthat cartilage tympanoplasty for tubotympanic type of CSOM is an excellent technique for complete removal of diseaseespecially from inaccessible areas of middle ear cleft.

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