Ear and Temporal Bone Surgery : Minimizing Risks and Complications

Section I. Introduction to Routine and Advanced Ear Surgery
1. General Requirements for Anesthesia in Routine Ear and Skull Base
Operations --Clark/Nitsun/Szokol
2. Audiometric Requirements Prior to Ear Surgery: Pitfalls --
Kileny/Berryhill
3. Intraoperative Monitoring of Cranial Nerves During Otological
Surgery: Prevention --Novak/Nenonene/Bernstein
4. Imaging of the Temporal Bone -- Valvassori

Section II. Surgery for Hearing
5. Correction of Congenital Malformations -- De La Cruz/Hansen
6. Risks and Complications of Tympanoplasty -- Farrior
7. Evaluating Blunt Temporal Bone Trauma -- Dinces/Kim/Wiet
8. Prevention of Complications in Stapes Surgery -- Perkins
9. Ossicular Chain Reconstruction: Maximizing Success and Minimizing
Errors -- Kartush/Babu
10. Avoiding Complications of Cochlear Implant Surgery --
Cohen/Marrinan

Section III. Surgery for Vertigo/Dizziness
11. Surgery for Benign Paroxysmal Postural Vertigo -- Battista
12. Meniere뭩 Disease: Diagnosis and Management -- Wiet/Kim
13. Diagnosis and Surgical Management of Dizziness and Vertigo --
Garcia-Iba?z/Kumar
14. Meniette Device and Chemical Labyrinthectomy For Unilateral
Cochleovestibular -- Gates

Section IV. Surgery for Infection
15. Pathology of Temporal Bone Related to Chronic Ear Disease --
Wenig, BM
16. Intact Canal Wall Tympanomastoidectomy -- Massick/Welling
17. Philosophy of Cholesteatoma Management -- Fayad/Parisier
18. Obliteration Operations -- Esquivel
19. Cholesterol Granuloma -- Brackmann/Antonio
20. Complications of Cholesteatoma / Chronic OME -- Antonio/Slattery

Section V. Tumors of the Temporal Bone and Related Skull Base
21. Management of Acoustic Neuromas -- Wiet/Ho
22. Middle Ear and Skull Base Glomus Tumors: Tympanic and Tympano-
Jugular -- Sanna/De Donato/Russo
23. Rarer Tumors of the Middle Ear and Temporal Bone --
Brackmann/Antonio

Section VI. Surgery of the Facial Nerve
24. Tumors of the Facial Nerve -- Linder/Fisch
25. Surgery in Bell뭩 Palsy and in Traumatic Facial Paralysis --
Kumar
26. Facial Reanimation and Eye Care -- Goldenberg/Wenig, BL

Section VII. Newer Trends in Ear Surgery
27. Office-Based Minor Surgery: Otoendoscopy and Inner Ear Perfusion -
- Silverstein/Jackson
28. Neuronavigation in the Temporal Bone -- Fraysse/Kim/Wiet
29. The Implantable Middle Ear Amplifier -- Frederickson/Bankaitis
30. Intratympanic Therapy for Hearing Loss -- Chandrasekhar