Beware of a Fragile Footplate: Lessons from Ossiculoplasty in Patients with Ossicular Anomalies Related to Second Pharyngeal Arch Defects.

J Clin Med · 2019 · PMC6947221 · PMID 31816982

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failed to reach statistical significancep = 0.089so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Meanwhile, the 12-month postoperative BC-PTA (15.7 ± 9.6 dB HL) of these 11 subjects showed a tendency of improvement as compared with the preoperative BC-PTA (16.8 ± 11.6 dB HL), but this difference failed to reach statistical significance ( p = 0.089).

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