Manual of Otologic Surgery

• Main Authors: Arnoldner, Christoph (Author), Lin, Vincent Y.W (Author), Chen, Joseph M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Otorhinolaryngology.; Otolaryngologic surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Head and Neck Surgery.

Temporal bone dissection training is paramount to the surgical education of any otolaryngologist and a special rite of passage for those who wish to focus their practice on otology. The complexity of temporal bone anatomy, which is exposed in a stepwise fashion during dissection, holds a particular...

Table of Contents:

• General Considerations
• Cortical Mastoidectomy
• Facial Nerve
• Facial recess
• Round window exposure
• Alternative approaches to the cochlea
• Unroofing the Epitympanum
• Canal Wall Down
• Skeletonizing the Facial Nerve
• Endolymphatic Sac Dissection
• Labyrinthectomy
• Internal Auditory Canal
• Middle Fossa Approach.