Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential Its Basics and Clinical Applications /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Murofushi, Toshihisa (Συγγραφέας), Kaga, Kimitaka (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Tokyo : Springer Japan, 2009.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Neurology.; Otorhinolaryngology.; Pediatrics.; Medicine & Public Health.

The vestibular labyrinth consists of ? ve compartments: the lateral, anterior, and posterior semicircular canals, the utricule, and the saccule. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Robert Bárány proposed the caloric test as a clinical test of the lateral semicircular canal. This test enabled...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Basics
• Overview of the Vestibular System
• Sound Sensitivity of the Vestibular End-Organs and Sound-Evoked Vestibulocollic Reflexes in Mammals
• Recording and Assessing VEMPs
• VEMP Variants
• Clinical Applications
• Meniere’s Disease and Related Disorders: Detection of Saccular Endolymphatic Hydrops
• Vestibular Neuritis (Neurolabyrinthitis) and Other Peripheral Vestibulopathies: Detection of Inferior Vestibular Nerve Damage
• Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome and VEMPs: Detection of Hypersensitivity of the Vestibular System to Sound
• Migraine-Associated Vertigo and VEMPs: Detection of Vestibular Signs in a Common but Unclear Entity
• Acoustic Neuroma and Other Cerebellopontine Angle Tumors: Detecting a Neoplasm in the Cerebellopontine Angle
• Disorders of the Central Nervous System and VEMPs: Detecting Lesions in the Vestibulospinal Pathway
• Pediatric Applications
• Neurootological Application of VEMP Recording During Infancy and Childhood.