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Mastoidectomy

Clinical Information

The mastoid is the bone behind the ear. It is composed of many tiny air spaces like a honey comb, and these air spaces are connected to the middle ear. Mastoidectomy is a procedure performed to help remove chronic disease or infection from the bone behind the ear. This surgery is occasionally performed in combination with tympanoplasty (repair of the ear drum) and/or ossiculoplasty (repair of the bones of hearing).

Pediatric Otolaryngology Surgeons
Portrait of Diane G Heatley, MD Diane G Heatley, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Phone: (608) 262-7181
E-mail: heatley@surgery.wisc.edu
Specialties: Otolaryngology, Pediatric Otolaryngology
Portrait of Tony L Kille, MD Tony L Kille, MD
Assistant Professor
Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Phone: (608) 262-7181
E-mail: kille@surgery.wisc.edu
Specialties: Otolaryngology, Pediatric Otolaryngology
Portrait of James Scott McMurray, MD James Scott McMurray, MD
Associate Professor
Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Phone: (608) 262-7181
E-mail: mcmurray@surgery.wisc.edu
Specialties: Otolaryngology, Pediatric Otolaryngology

Otolaryngology Surgeon
Portrait of G. Mark Pyle, MD G. Mark Pyle, MD
Professor, Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Academic Vice-Chair, Division of Otolaryngology
Section Head, Otology & Neurotology
Residency Program Director
Phone: (608) 265-0494
E-mail: pyle@surgery.wisc.edu
Specialties: Otolaryngology

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