Study Design
Consultant Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgeons with a subspecialist
interest in Otology working in Northern Ireland were asked to identify
patients for this retrospective case review through their
prospectively-recorded surgical logbook. The search terms
“Obliteration,” and “Mastoid Obliteration,” were, where the
respective surgeons questioned the completeness of the data, augmented
by a search for all patients who had undergone “Modified Radical
Mastoidectomy.”