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Bordes-Vollsa labyrinth windowing

Bordes-Vollsa labyrinth windowing (M. Bordes-Valls; fenestratio, lat. fenestro, fenestratum – to supply with openings, windows; Greek labyrinthes – a difficult interlacing, a complexity, network) – the surgery which is carried out at an otosclerosis for formation of a new oval window; during operation after opening of a drum cavity carry out an incudectomy and heads of a hammer access through scales of a temporal bone, then the front department of the side semicircular channel creates a new oval window.

 
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