Clinical Cases in Endoscopic Ear Surgery : From External Ear to Middle Ear, Volume 1

This original book provides a comprehensive overview of endoscopic ear surgery through more than 70 clinical cases, covering the external ear canal, tympanic membrane perforations, and ossicular chain surgery, including ossiculoplasties and stapes procedures.

This work is the result of a collaboration among prominent experts from all over the world. Many of these experts are members of the International Working Group on Endoscopic Ear Surgery (IWGEES). The contributors describe real cases from their own practice, and each clinical case combines commentaries, key points, color illustrations, drawings, decision trees, and the latest bibliographic references, with step-by-step surgical videos explaining anatomy, techniques, devices, tips, and pitfalls. Given its very practical approach, this volume will be an essential companion for surgeons wishing to improve their technique, as well as for beginners in the field of endoscopic ear surgery.

This volume is part of a comprehensive and innovative approach to ear endoscopy. It is complemented by a second book dedicated to additional key areas of ear surgery, including congenital and acquired cholesteatoma, tympanic retraction pockets, middle ear tumors, facial nerve, inner ear surgery, lateral skull base surgery, and cochlear implantation.

Together, these two books constitute a complementary reference set, offering comprehensive coverage of ear surgery and serving as an invaluable resource for surgeons in the meticulous planning and preparation of their cases.

Foreword.- Preface.- External Ear: Exostosis. Canaloplasty.- Tumors.- Foreign body.- Middle Ear: Chronic otitis media (myringotomy and ventilation tube).- Tympanic membrane perforations. Tympanic membrane Retraction pockets.- Congenital and acquired Cholesteatomas (transcanal endoscopy and combined techniques with microscope).- Ossiculoplasties.- Otosclerosis and congenital malformations of the ossicular chain.- Tumors (adenomas, glomic tumors).- Inner Ear & Lateral Skull Base: Intra-cochlear schwanomas.- Schwanomas of the facial nerve.- Schwanomas of the cochlear and vestibular nerves (transcanal endoscopy and combined approaches with microscope).- Tumors of the petroux apex nerves (transcanal endoscopy and combined approaches with the microscope).- Peri-lymphatic fistulas. Dehiscence of the semi-circular canal.

Dr Stéphane Ayache is an ENT surgeon, specialized in Ear Surgery and Neck Surgery. He is working in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery in Simone Veil Hospital Centre, Cannes France and in La Citadelle Hospital Centre, Liege - Belgium. In 2008 he founded the International Working Group on Endoscopic Ear Surgery (IWGEES) with some other international ear surgeons. He was the IWGEES President for 7 years and is currently a member of the founding board of the IWGEES. This group has largely contributed to the diffusion of ear endoscopy around the world. He is a member of the Namur ENT Endoscopic Academy (NEEA, Belgium) and consultant for international companies for the development of devices in endoscopic ear surgery. He has created several international congresses about endoscopy in ENT, and international courses including ear microscopic and endoscopic ear surgery and hands-on temporal bone dissections. He is the director of the Cannes Otology Course and is regularly involved in international meetings, courses, university teaching as lecturer and chairman, and surgical demonstrations around the world. He authored more than 90 scientific national and international papers especially about endoscopic ear surgery.