Burzliwa historia operacji ucha środkowego
Journal Title: Otolaryngologia Polska - Year 2008, Vol 62, Issue 4
Abstract
The paper is a review of primary and secondary historical and scientific literature concerning the surgical treatment of the middle ear diseases. The development of mastoid surgery can be traced through the past 4 centuries. Once used as a means of evacuating a postauricular abscess, it has evolved to become a method for gaining entry into the middle ear to control acute and chronic ear diseases, or for treatment of otogenic complications. Earlier works led the way to the postauricular “Wilde incision”, which gave rise to Schwartze mastoidectomy. Oscar Wilde’s ultimate demise from an otogenic meningitis appears all the more ironic when one considers the role his father, Sir William Wilde, played as one of the founding fathers of modern otology. The death of baron von Berger after mastoidectomy performed for treatment of tinnitus and hypacusis, stopped the further development of surgical procedures for about hundred years. The Joseph Toynbee’s “Diseases of the ear” was the fi rst work about ear diseases on a pathologic anatomical base, and fundamental for otology of the German speaking countries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Otology was emerging as a specifi c specialty. Von Tröltsch was the fi rst surgeon, who proposed the antral opening through the external ear canal. When Schwartze and his assistant, Eysell, published their paper: „On the Artifi cial Opening of the Mastoid Air Cells,” a century or so had passed since the few previous attempts to remove the tegmen of the mastoid had been reported. One of the greatest otologists of the 19th century was Adam Politzer, His infl uence on the 50 years of otology has never been equaled. It is in his honor that the International Society of Otology bears his name.
Authors and Affiliations
Stanisław Betlejewski, Andrzej Betlejewski
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