Table 3.

Results of the clinical study in five patients who received transplants of tissue-engineered autologous nasal mucosal epithelial cell sheets

Patient number	Surgical method	Type of ossiculoplasty	Re-retraction or re-adhesion of tympanic membrane	Postoperative aeration		Recurrence of cholesteatoma	Postoperative hearing level (dB)	Postoperative air-bone gap (dB)	Complications	Months of follow-up
				attic	mastoid
1	Canal wall up tympanoplasty	Columella on the stapes	None	+	+	None	18.3	10.0	None	27
2	Canal wall up tympanoplasty	Columella on the stapes	None	+	+	None	35.0	20.0	None	20
3	Canal wall up tympanoplasty	Columella on the stapes	None	+	+	None	25.0	15.0	None	16
4	Canal wall up tympanoplasty	Columella on the stapes	None	+	−	None	31.7	15.1	None	14
5	Tympanoplasty without mastoidectomy	Columella on the footplate	None			None	56.7	38.7	None	12