Radical cave

A radical cavity or mastoid cavity is the result of an ear surgery, the so-called radical mastoidectomy. In this OP is the mastoid ( mastoid ) eliminated and a common cavity of the domed area of the middle ear ( Epitympanon ), the mastoid and the ear canal is applied with removal of the posterior canal wall.

This procedure is particularly necessary in the case of a larger cholesteatoma with poor ventilation of the middle ear and the mastoid process or in the case of a recurrent cholesteatoma . Radical surgery may also be necessary for tumors of the middle ear. Depending on the situation, the structures of the middle ear ( eardrum , ossicles ) - if still present - must also be removed. Under certain conditions, however, they can be preserved (“conservative radical surgery”) or restored using a tympanoplasty .

The radical cavity must be cleaned regularly by the ENT doctor and checked for recurrence of cholesteatoma.

See also

• Mastoiditis
• Cholesteatoma

literature

• Achim Franzen: Ear, nose and throat medicine: short textbook for the GK3 . Elsevier, Urban & Fischer Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-437-42960-4 ( full text in the Google book search).
• J. Berendes et al (Ed.): Ear, nose and throat medicine in practice and clinic . tape 5 . Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-13-543702-7 .

• J. Berendes et al (Ed.): Ear, nose and throat medicine in practice and clinic . tape 6 . Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-13-543802-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ H. Ganz; V. Jahnke: ear, nose and throat medicine. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1996, ISBN 3-11-014742-4 , p. 67 f.
2. ↑ Stefanie Czibor: The need for post-treatment of the radical cavity. 2001, (Dissertation, Ruhr University Bochum) (PDF; 339 kB)

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