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Obliteration of the tympanomastoid cavity: long term results of the Rambo operation.

M-I MI Kos, O O Chavaillaz, and J-P JP Guyot

J Laryngol Otol 120(12):1014-8 (2006) PMID 16995962

Radical mastoidectomy and tympanomastoid obliteration with fat tissue, also called the Rambo operation, is proposed to those patients suffering chronic middle-ear disease, with or without cholesteatoma, who have no useful hearing in an ear which cannot be kept dry despite all conservative treatment.

DOI: 10.1017/S0022215106003215
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