Our Otorhinolaryngology (ORL) department at Mansoura University treats variety of conditions related to Ear, Nose, Larynx (voice box), Pharynx, Head and Neck surgery, Maxillofacial and Skull base.

Our Otology and Neurotolgy expert staff deals with many diseases of the Ear including diseases of the           inner ear. Our health service at Mansoura University hospitals (MUH) has many tools in our outpatient clinic and ORL Operating Room to help diagnose the patient precisely and make a treatment plan with inpatient section for appropriate follow up of patients.

Otology and Neurotology deals with a lot of conditions as hearing loss, chronic ear infection and profound sensorineural hearing. These services and procedures include:

• Myringotomy with/without ventilation tube insertion:
• In cases of patients who have persistent otitis media with effusuion (OME)
• Selected cases with complicated acute otitis media (AOM)
• Tympanoplasty with/without mastoidectomy:

This type of surgery is directed to treating an ear with chronic infection. Chronic ear infection range from a small dry perforation in tympanic membrane to complicated cases with cholesteatoma. There must be appropriate selection of the procedure to be done in each patient. It can be done either through microscope or endoscope (endoscopic ear surgery). These procedures include:

• Myringoplasty (Tympanoplasty type I) either microscopic or endoscopic
• Endoscopic ear surgery
• Tympanoplasty with canal wall up mastoidectomy
• Canal wall down mastoidectomy

3. Stapes surgery:

Otosclerosis is a disease that cause fixation of the ossicles leading to hearing loss. Stapedectomy is the surgery that replace the fixed stapes with a prosthetic one to regain hearing.

4. Ossicular reconstruction:

Patients who have hearing loss due to loss of the connection between tympanic membrane and oval window which is the opening of the middle ear into the sensory inner ear. Reconstruction of sound transferring mechanism by reconstruction of the bony ossicles is done to treat those patients with a different technique directed to each patient’s need.

5. Cochlear implantation:

We have one of the best teams of cochlear impanation for patients with profound sensorineural hearing loss, especially children born with such disability. This great effort is done in collaboration with health insurance providing needed implants for those kids.

6. Surgery for benign ear tumors:

Surgery is done for benign ear tumors such as osteoma of external auditory canal.

7. Glomus surgery:

Glomus is a vascular benign tumor that originate either in middle ear (Glomus tympanicum) or in jugular foramine (Glomus jugulare).

8. Lateral skull base surgery:

This is an advanced type of surgery for large Glomus jugulare and other lesions in this difficult to access