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OTOLOGIC SURGERY
Otologic Surgery
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Second Edition

By
Derald Brackmann, MD, Clinical Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Southern California School of Medicine; President, House Ear Clinic; Board of Directors, House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Clough Shelton, MD, Professor, Neuro-Otology and Skull Base Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT
Moises Arriaga, MD, Professor of Otolaryngology and Neurosurgery, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA

Description
The new, comprehensive second edition covers all aspects of surgery of the ear and skull base, keeping readers up to date as they improve their surgical skills in this growing field. This edition includes more skull base surgery approaches, new information on implantable hearing devices and rehabilitation of the lower cranial nerves, and more. Throughout the book, numerous changes have been made to reflect contemporary procedures, and outmoded techniques have been deleted. Each chapter is authored by a recognized expert, and hundreds of detailed illustrations have been drawn by a single artist.

Audience
Otoloaryngologists, otolaryngology residents.

Contents
1. Otologic Instrumentation
2. Canalplasty for Exostoses of the External Auditory Canal and Miscellaneous Auditory Canal Problems
3. Malignancies of the Temporal Bone: Limited Temporal Bone Resection
4. Malignancies of the Temporal Bone – Radical Temporal Bone Resection
5. Congenital Malformation of the Temporal Bone
6. Surgery of Ventilation and Mucosal Disease
7. The Abnormally Patulous Eustachian Tube
8. Traumatic Perforation-Office Treatment of the Chronically Draining Ear
9. Tympanoplasty: Outer Surface Grafting Technique
10. Tympanoplasty: The Undersurface Graft Technique – Transcanal Approach
11. Tympanoplasty: The Undersurface Graft Technique – Postauricular Approach
12. Tympanoplasty: Ossicular Tissue, Hydroxyapatite, and HAPEX
13. Tympanoplasty: Cartilage and Porous Polyethylene
14. Biocompatible Materials in Chronic Ear Surgery
15. Surgery of Acute Infections and their Complications
16. Mastoidectomy: The Intact Canal Wall Procedures
17. Mastoidectomy: Canal Wall Down Procedure
18. Tympanoplasty: Staging and Use of Plastic
19. Management of Complications of Chronic Otitis Media
20. Dural Herniation and Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks
21. Total Stapedectomy
22. Stapedectomy: Use of Natural Material
23. Laser Stapedotomy
24. Partial Stapedectomy
25. Laser Revision Stapedectomy
26. Special Problems of Otologic Surgery
27. Avoidance and Management of Complications of Otosclerosis Surgery
28. Perilymphatic Fistula
29. Management of Bell's Palsy and Ramsay Hunt Syndrome
30. Traumatic Facial Paralysis
31. Facial Nerve Tumors
32. Surgery for Cochlear Implantation
33. Impantable Hearing Devices
34. The Bone-Anchored Hearing Aid
35. Endolymphatic Sac Procedures
36. Middle Cranial Fossa: Vestibular Neurectomy
37. Retrolabyrinthine/Retrosigmoid Vestibular Neurectomy
38. Cochleosacculotomy
39. Chemical Treatment of the Labyrinth
40. Transcanal Labyrinthectomy
41. Overview of Transtemporal Skull Base Surgery
42. Translabyrinthine Vestibular Neurectomy
43. Posterior Ampullary Nerve Section for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
44. Posterior Semicircular Canal Occlusion for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
45. Operations for Vascular Compression Syndromes
46. Drainage Procedures for Petrous Apex Lesions
47. Surgery for Glomus and Jugular Foramen Tumors
48. Rehabilitation of Lower Cranial Nerve Deficits After Neurotologic Skull Base Surgery
49. Middle Fossa Approach
50. Translabyrinthine Approach
51. Retrosigmoid Approach to Tumors of the Cerebellopontine Angle
52. The Transotic Approach
53. Transcochlear Approach to Cerebellopontine Angle Lesions
54. Middle Fossa Transpetrous Approach for Access to the Petroclival Region (Extended Middle Fossa Approach)
55. Anterior and Subtemporal Approaches to the Infratemporal Fossa
56. Petrosal Approach
57. Treatment of Bilateral Acoustic Neuromas
58. Auditory Brainstem Implant
59. Management of Postoperative Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks
60. Care of the Eye in Facial Paralysis
61. Hypoglossal Facial Anastomosis
62. Facial Reanimation Techniques
63. Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Monitoring

Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 704 pages, publication date: MAY-2001
ISBN-13: 978-0-7216-8976-0
ISBN-10: 0-7216-8976-0
Imprint: SAUNDERS


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