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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818129703321

Titolo

Inner ear partition / / edited by B. Ars

Pubbl/distr/stampa

The Hague, : Kugler Publications, c1998

ISBN

90-6299-827-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (118 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ArsB (Bernard)

Disciplina

612/.858

Soggetti

Labyrinth (Ear) - Surgery

Meniere's disease

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers submitted to a conference on fundamental aspects, concerns, and daily practice and surgery of "inner ear partition" held January 25, 1997, at Fondation Universitaire, Brussels.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and author index.

Nota di contenuto

PREFACE; ANOTHER VIEW OF THE INNER EAR PATHOLOGY; VASCULAR STRUCTURES OF THE INNER EAR; ENDOCOCHLEAR VERSUS ENDOLABYRINTHIC POTENTIAL; BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF THE LABYRINTHINEFLUIDS IN HUMANS; MÉNIÈRE'S DISEASE AND THE ENDOLYMPHATIC SAC; TWO-PHASE ENDOLYMPHATIC HYDROPS: A NEW MODELFOR MÉNIÈRE'S DISEASE; DISSIMILARITIES IN AUDITORY AND VESTIBULARFUNCTION IN MÉNIÈRE'S DISEASE; PERILYMPHATIC FISTULAE - Inner ear partition; DOES THE OPENING OF THE MEMBRANOUS LABYRINTHIN OTOSCLEROSIS SURGERY SYSTEMATICALLY LEAD TOTOTAL DEAFNESS?; PARTIAL LABYRINTHECTOMY WITH HEARINGPRESERVATION IN AN ANIMAL MODEL

POSTERIOR SEMICIRCULAR CANAL OCCLUSION FORBENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGOSUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; Index of authors

Sommario/riassunto

PrefaceUp to now, it was generally believed that the destruction of any part of the membranous labyrinth invariably led to complete hearing loss. This concept is no longer accurate!It became apparent that the inner ear was compartmentalized into a cochlea and a vestibule, separated from each other by two valves. Each compartment with its own morphology, physiology, particular biochemistry, and specific pathology. Today, surgery of either of these compartments can be performed without fear for the integrity of the other. This constitutes a



revolution in surgery of the inner ear and leads to per