Homograft stapes in middle ear surgery.

Descriptions are given of various uses of stapes homografts in tympanoplasty on ears with missing stapedial arch. The use of homograft stapes-incus assembly, placing the head of the homograft stapes on the patient's own footplate and on top of that an incus, is a method which at long sight has proved to afford better results than the use of an incus columella.