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  • Thumbnail for Stapes
    The stapes is the smallest and lightest bone in the human body, and is so-called because of its resemblance to a stirrup (Latin: Stapes). The stapes is...
    10 KB (1,119 words) - 14:32, 16 August 2024
  • Stapedectomy (category Ear surgery)
    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...
    17 KB (2,015 words) - 05:55, 9 August 2024
  • and stapes implants.  Tympanoplasty implants (also known as PORPs or TORPs) are suitable for patients with a mobile stapes footplate, ie. a stapes footplate...
    9 KB (1,204 words) - 22:21, 25 May 2024
  • perforation. Otosclerosis is a disease that results in fixation of the stapes, which conducts sound to the inner ear. Microscopic stapedectomy, requires...
    12 KB (1,311 words) - 16:17, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Noise-induced hearing loss
    incus, and stapes to vibrate in sync with the eardrum. The middle ear ossicles transfer mechanical energy to the cochlea by way of the stapes footplate...
    113 KB (13,274 words) - 17:17, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Otosclerosis
    mechanism is fixation of the stapes footplate to the oval window of the cochlea. This greatly impairs movement of the stapes and therefore transmission...
    29 KB (3,314 words) - 10:06, 8 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Microsurgery
    opening of the fenestra in the lateral semicircular canal. The revival of the stapes mobilization operation by Rosen, in 1953, made the use of the microscope...
    16 KB (2,056 words) - 12:03, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Round window
    niche is often much smaller than this. The stapes bone transmits movement to the oval window. As the stapes footplate moves into the oval window, the round...
    6 KB (713 words) - 11:50, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ear
    transmits the vibrations to the small stapes bone. The wide base of the stapes rests on the oval window. As the stapes vibrates, vibrations are transmitted...
    59 KB (6,953 words) - 04:38, 12 August 2024
  • stapes. Indications for use of an ossicular replacement prosthesis include: Chronic middle ear disease Otosclerosis Congenital fixation of the stapes...
    1 KB (138 words) - 00:00, 8 March 2023
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    Tympanoplasty (category Ear surgery)
    repaired and directly connected to the head of the stapes. Type 4 describes a repair when the stapes foot plate is movable, but the crura are missing....
    5 KB (549 words) - 04:25, 28 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Middle ear
    which connects to the incus, which in turn connects to the stapes. Vibrations of the stapes footplate introduce pressure waves in the inner ear. There...
    20 KB (2,590 words) - 19:40, 29 July 2024
  • infection, or by replacing the stapes bone with a stapedectomy for otosclerosis. Otology and neurotology encompass more complex surgery of the inner ear not typically...
    5 KB (499 words) - 02:47, 19 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Cholesteatoma
    the three small bones located in the middle ear (the malleus, incus and stapes, collectively called ossicles). This can result in nerve deterioration,...
    27 KB (3,194 words) - 19:24, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Inner ear
    which connects to the stapes. The footplate of the stapes connects to the oval window, the beginning of the inner ear. When the stapes presses on the oval...
    21 KB (2,852 words) - 20:25, 4 June 2024
  • 600 – ossicular replacement MeSH E04.580.450.731 – stapes surgery MeSH E04.580.450.731.681 – stapes mobilization MeSH E04.580.450.873 – tympanoplasty MeSH E04...
    47 KB (3,591 words) - 16:56, 9 February 2024
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    Outer ear (section Surgery)
    and Applications of the Auricular Muscle in Facial Plastic Surgery". Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. 45 (1): 309–314. doi:10.1007/s00266-020-02045-x. ISSN 1432-5241...
    11 KB (1,238 words) - 01:40, 5 August 2024
  • Hyperacusis (section Surgery)
    significantly; it often revolves around damage to or dysfunction of the stapes bone, stapedius muscle or tensor tympani (eardrum). It is often categorized...
    41 KB (4,277 words) - 18:54, 5 August 2024
  • ossicles: the hammer (malleus), anvil (incus) and stirrup (stapes) during middle ear reconstructive surgery, or tympanoplasty, that are more affordable compared...
    7 KB (556 words) - 22:02, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Columella (auditory system)
    cortical bone. These prostheses are used as replacements for the stapes in ear surgery to correct for hearing problems (such as cholesteatoma or re-perforation)...
    11 KB (1,266 words) - 05:51, 25 December 2023
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