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radical mastoidectomy

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radical mastoidectomy
ENT An operation to eradicate disease of the middle ear cavity and mastoid process, in which the mastoid, epitympanic, and mesotympanic spaces are converted into an easily accessible common cavity by removing the posterior and superior external canal walls. Cf Modified radical mastoidectomy.


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12) Bondy first described the modified radical mastoidectomy during the early part of the 20th century.
She had a surgical history of a left-sided radical mastoidectomy for chronic ear disease more than 25 years earlier.
With the patient under general anesthesia, a radical mastoidectomy via a postauricular approach was performed.
 
 
 
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