Ricerc@Sapienza

Purpose Compare the outcomes of primary exclusive endoscopic ear surgery with those of the microscopic ear surgery in a group of patients affected by attic cholesteatoma. Materials and methods Eighty patients suffered from attic cholesteatoma. Forty patients surgical treated with endoscopic ear surgery and forty patients surgical treated with microscopic ear surgery.

In this previous study, we compared exclusive endoscopic ear surgery (EES) withmicroscopic earsurgery (MES) in the surgical treatment of a series of‘attic’cholesteatomas.Clarifications in response to some observations made by Zhengcai-Lou et al. are reported below. In the study conclusions, the authors did not indicate the EES as theoptimal treatment in cases of‘attic’ cholesteatoma.