[Our postoperative care and surveillance in surgery of stable sequelae of chronic otitis]. / Nos soins et surveillance postopératoires dans la chirurgie des séquelles stabilisées d'otite chronique.

After a brief summary of the technique used for myringoplasty (enlarged endaural approach, large flattened aponeurotic graft applied to deep surface of tympano-meatal flap after a "request" for boring) emphasis is given to the need for strict surveillance and postoperative care by the surgeon. Immediate postoperative care starts in the operating room and involves a deep intra-meatal dressing (1 or 2 Popes oto-wicks placed on a thin film of silastic or simply surrounded by Gelfoam) and a superficial dressing. The dressing is renewed on the 3rd day with the patient in bed and involves only the superficial one. Secondary postoperative care extends to the 10th or 15th day and includes exeresis of the deep pope-Gelfoam assemblage under careful binocular microscope control followed by audiometric examination. Hospital stay is a mean of 5 days and medical treatment (antibiotics, vasodilators, corticoids) is given as required. Late postoperative care can be summarized as involving regular surveillance and the application of certain rules that cause little disturbance in the patients life. Various rare and even exceptional incidents, benign in the majority of cases, are reviewed.

[Translation esophageal flap in the repair of traumatic stenosis of the hypopharynx]. / Lambeau oesophagien de translation dans la réparation d'une sténose traumatique de l'hypopharynx.

A surgical technique is proposed which makes use of a cervical esophageal flap to repair a hypopharyngeal stenosis from traumatic intubation. The technique is also applicable for identical stenosis of caustic or traumatic origin, other procedures described in the literature being suitable only for more extensive or more limited lesions. This simply performed technique provides important mucosal gains in the piriform sinus region and a satisfactory hypopharyngeal line.