Abstract:Objective To evaluate the clinical outcome of endoscopic type I tympanoplasty in pediatric patients using island cartilage and perichondrium, and to analyze prognostic factors and long-term efficacy.Methods Clinical data of 64 children who underwent type I tympanoplasty for tympanic membrane perforation between March 2016 and Sept 2020 in our department were analyzed retrospectively. Their age range was from 4 years, 11 months and 2 days to 17 years, 4 months and 5 days with a median age of 8 years and 5 months. The analyzed data included patients' age and gender, combined suppurative otitis media, perforation reason and location of perforation (anterior, posterior, inferior), eustachian tube function score, pre- and post-operative hearing levels, mean air-bone gap (ABG), and surgical approach. SPSS 22.0 software was used for statistical analysis of the data.Results Endoscopic type I tympanoplasty was performed in 64 children (66 ears). The anatomic closure rate was 80.3% and the functional success rate was 86.36%. The closure rate of ≤ 10-year-old children was 73.81%, which was lower than that of >10-year-old children (91.67%). The closure rate of children with otitis media was 74.47%, which was lower than that of children without otitis media(94.73%).Conclusions Infectious factors are the main causes of perforation of eardrum in children and are also associated with adverse outcomes. Type I tympanoplasty in children using island cartilage and perichondrium as repair material under otoscope has high closure rate and functional success rate. Patient's age younger than 10 and infection are factors of poor outcome.