Sentence examples for middle ear cleft from inspiring English sources

Materials and methods: This study was conducted on 30 subjects having evidence of attico-antral type of disease in middle ear cleft.

Coronal CT (f) shows widening of the oval window, caused by the tumour extension to the middle ear cleft.

Non-echoplanar diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) has established itself as the modality of choice in detecting and localising post-operative middle ear cleft cholesteatoma.

b The non-contrast enhanced T1 weighted image showed this (white arrow) to represent subcutaneous tissue just outside the reconstructed post-operative middle ear cleft.

In contrast to control animals, those that had received Seprafilm packing at the conclusion of the surgical procedure had no middle ear cleft adhesions and no differences in auditory brainstem responses at 3 or 6 weeks after surgery [74].

As they can depict anatomy better than the DWI images, the T1W and T2W images are especially useful in improving localisation of the lesion and assessing whether spurious DWI high signals mimicking possible cholesteatoma actually lie within or outside the post-operative middle ear cleft (Figs. 7 and 12).

To report two cases of an undescribed association of first branchial cleft fistula and middle ear congenital cholesteatoma and to discuss management and embryological hypothesis.

Mutations affecting development of the external ear might also result from defective neural crest development, a mechanism exemplified by the role of Tcof1/Treacle in Treacher Collins Syndrome (TCS), an autosomal dominant disorder that frequently includes hypoplasia of the facial bones, cleft palate and middle ear defects in addition to malformation of the pinna (Dixon et al., 2007).

Careful examination and diagnosis of middle ear status and blood tests are recommended before cleft palate surgery in order to avoid this complication.

Histologically, demineralised foci of spongy new bone typically occur in the region of the embryonic fissula ante fenestram, which is a cleft of fibrocartilagenous tissue between the inner and middle ear, just anterior to the oval window (Fig. 1).

Less frequently, we observed cholesterol clefts admixed in cellular debris in the middle ear lumen (Fig. 3B).