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Ossification of the ossicles seems to occur steadily throughout fetal life and after birth during development of the middle ear. Although the clinical significance of postnatal residual bone marrow within the ossicles is not known, it possibly plays a role as a blood-forming organ in early infancy.
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Yokoyama et al. (1999) studied this question.
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