Tympanoplasty Techniques Practice Questions

Question 1

Columellar tympanoplasty is -

Accepted Answer

Type IV

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Type III

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Type I

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Type II

Question 2

How do tympanostomy tubes help in recurrent otitis media?

Accepted Answer

improve middle ear drainage

Answer

help reduce the risk of bacteria entering the middle ear

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repair perforations in the tympanic membrane

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facilitate the delivery of antibiotics to the middle ear

Question 3

Mainstay of treatment of glue ear -

Accepted Answer

Myringotomy + aeration to middle ear

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Temporal bone resection

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Tonsillectomy & adenoidectomy

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Radical Mastoidectomy

Question 4

Assertion: Otosclerosis results in sensorineural hearing loss in the late stages. Reason: In otosclerosis, abnormal bone growth occurs at the stapes footplate, leading to fixation of the stapes and conductive hearing loss.

Accepted Answer

Both Assertion and Reason are true, but Reason is not the correct explanation for Assertion.

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Both Assertion and Reason are true, and Reason is the correct explanation for Assertion.

Answer

Both Assertion and Reason are false.

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Assertion is true, but Reason is false.

Question 5

The preferred site of incision for myringotomy in ASOM (Acute Suppurative Otitis Media) to drain the middle ear is:

Accepted Answer

Posteroinferior

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Anteroinferior

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Anterosuperior

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Posterosuperior

Question 6

Incision used in the endomeatal approach to the ear?

Accepted Answer

Rosen's incision

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Wilde's incision

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Lempert I incision

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Lempert II incision

Question 7

Iatrogenic traumatic facial nerve palsy is MOST commonly produced during which of the following surgical procedures?

Accepted Answer

Mastoidectomy

Answer

Ossiculoplasty

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Myringoplasty

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Stapedectomy

Question 8

Rinne's test was negative in the right ear. What is the possible diagnosis?

Accepted Answer

40 dB CHL right ear, left normal

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Profound hearing loss right ear, left ear normal

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40 dB CHL in both ears

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40 dB SNHL in left ear, right ear normal

Question 9

Posterosuperior retraction pocket if allowed to progress will lead to?

Accepted Answer

Primary cholesteatoma

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SNHL

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Secondary cholesteatoma

Answer

Tympanosclerosis

Question 10

Which of the following statements about tubercular otitis media is false?

Accepted Answer

Causes painful ear discharge

Answer

Spreads through the eustachian tube

Answer

Usually affects only one ear

Answer

May cause multiple perforations

Tympanoplasty Techniques — MCQs

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