Modified House Tympanoplasty for Successful Closure of Near-Total Tympanic Membrane Perforations
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate the use of a modified House technique in the successful closure of near-total tympanic membrane perforations. METHODS: This is a retrospective analysis over a 25-year span of the senior author's experience with a particular technique of closing large tympanic membrane perforations. The charts of patients were reviewed and the data were analyzed. TECHNIQUE: The modified House technique combines an underlay graft placement with an advancement ear canal skin flap. It provides vascularization and subsequent early epithelialization of a large perforation. RESULTS: In this series, the senior author operated on 46 patients. Forty-three patients had one ear operated on and three had bilateral surgery. The closure rate was 98% (48 of 49 ears). The one failure had a subsequent successful closure at a later date. CONCLUSION: This is a simple endaural technique that guarantees successful closure of near-total tympanic membrane perforations using locally available tragal perichondrium.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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