Cholesteatoma disease recidivism after canal wall up tympanomastoidectomy with or without obliteration (CLEAR-EAR): A protocol for a randomized controlled trial

• Chiara Erfurt ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chiara Erfurt, Maud J. de Rooij

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, UMC Utrecht Brain Centre, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0673-1661

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• Maud J. de Rooij ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chiara Erfurt, Maud J. de Rooij

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: M.J.deRooij-19@umcutrecht.nl

  Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, UMC Utrecht Brain Centre, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7136-2329

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• Robert J. Stokroos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, UMC Utrecht Brain Centre, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Louise V. Straatman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, UMC Utrecht Brain Centre, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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• Hans G. X. M. Thomeer

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, UMC Utrecht Brain Centre, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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