1994 Volume 87 Issue 12 Pages 1639-1642
A ten-year-old girl with right conductive hearing loss was found to have unilateral congenital stapedial tendon ossification. Exploratory tympanotomy revealed absence of the incus long crus, anomaly of the stapes superstructure and a stapedial tendon ossification. After excision of the tendon and insertion of the cartilage piece between the malleus neck and the superstructure, her hearing was almost normal.