Shifting from postauricular to transcanal microscopic tympanoplasty may have similar frequency-specific improvements with better air-bone-gap closure at low frequencies and a minimal learning-curve effect

• Ethan I. Huang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: ehuang@alumni.pitt.edu

  Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2789-189X

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• Yu-Chieh Wu,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Audiology and Speech Pathology Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

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• Hsiu-Mei Chuang,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Audiology and Speech Pathology Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

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• Tzu-Chi Huang

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Audiology and Speech Pathology Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

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