Does packing the eustachian tube impact cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea rates in translabyrinthine vestibular schwannoma resections?
Cerebrospinal fluid leak rates were similar in patients undergoing TL, SO, and MCF approaches, and CSF rhinorrhea was not decreased by ET packing. Patients whose ETs are packed with Proplast are at risk for extrusion and otorrhea years after their initial VS resection.
Since biofilm remains a largely uncharacterised multi-parameter phenotype it appears to be advisable to exploit more than one model in order to draw conclusion of possible relevance of specific genotypes on pneumococcal physiology.