It has been just over 20 years that Hawke and Jahn’s seminal book entitled Diseases of the Ear: Clinical and Pathologic Aspects was published. The book was unique from other textbooks in otology at the time and concentrated its message according to two well-known proverbs in English literature namely “A picture is worth a thousand words” and “Seeing is believing.”
Dr. Masoud Motasaddi Zarandy has taken these twin concepts, and in the process, has produced a very beautiful and a visually pleasing book. The pictures and accompanying text allows the reader not only to see how different pathologies affect the inner ear but also to appreciate the clinical consequences that arise from our decision making processes. Far from dry, the inner ear and skull base comes to life when we see the dynamics of how disease involves this complex and integral part of the body. For the uninitiated, this book takes us on a tour of the field that has evolved over the past decade into the formal discipline of neurotology/skull base medicine and surgery. It has quite rightly become a specialized branch of otolaryngology/neurosurgery where interdisciplinary collaboration has become the rule rather than the exception. Advances in imaging (including intraoperative stereotaxis), technology (i.e., implantation for profound sensorineural hearing loss), and molecular biology have all played a role in the further management of disorders in this region and will continue to do so in future.
With regard to its content, the book is divided into a number of chapters that cover the clinical conditions that commonly involve the inner ear and skull base. To mention a few of the chapters in the book provides case in point. For example, the histopathology of temporal bone malignancy is a rarely ever appreciated antemortem, yet it continues to provide us with a wealth of information concerning how tumors spread in the skull base. Our understanding of congenital deafness and its association with various developmental inner ear anomalies have significant practical consequences regarding the success or failure of cochlear implantation surgery. The success of physical therapy maneuvers for the treatment of benign positional paroxysmal vertigo might realistically depend on whether the patient has cupulolithiasis or canalolithiasis as the pathologic cause. All the above considerations are detailed in the accompanying text.
Contents
1 Temporal Bone Tumors and Metastatic Disease
2 Cholesteatoma and Its Complications
3 Anomalies of the Inner Ear
4 Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss
5 Trauma to the Inner Ear
6 Otosclerosis
7 Presbycusis
8 Ménière’s Syndrome
9 Benign Positional Vertigo
10 Meningioma
11 Vestibular Schwannoma
12 Other Cranial Nerve Schwannomas and Paragangliomas
13 Ototoxicity
Index
Dr. Masoud Motasaddi Zarandy has taken these twin concepts, and in the process, has produced a very beautiful and a visually pleasing book. The pictures and accompanying text allows the reader not only to see how different pathologies affect the inner ear but also to appreciate the clinical consequences that arise from our decision making processes. Far from dry, the inner ear and skull base comes to life when we see the dynamics of how disease involves this complex and integral part of the body. For the uninitiated, this book takes us on a tour of the field that has evolved over the past decade into the formal discipline of neurotology/skull base medicine and surgery. It has quite rightly become a specialized branch of otolaryngology/neurosurgery where interdisciplinary collaboration has become the rule rather than the exception. Advances in imaging (including intraoperative stereotaxis), technology (i.e., implantation for profound sensorineural hearing loss), and molecular biology have all played a role in the further management of disorders in this region and will continue to do so in future.
With regard to its content, the book is divided into a number of chapters that cover the clinical conditions that commonly involve the inner ear and skull base. To mention a few of the chapters in the book provides case in point. For example, the histopathology of temporal bone malignancy is a rarely ever appreciated antemortem, yet it continues to provide us with a wealth of information concerning how tumors spread in the skull base. Our understanding of congenital deafness and its association with various developmental inner ear anomalies have significant practical consequences regarding the success or failure of cochlear implantation surgery. The success of physical therapy maneuvers for the treatment of benign positional paroxysmal vertigo might realistically depend on whether the patient has cupulolithiasis or canalolithiasis as the pathologic cause. All the above considerations are detailed in the accompanying text.
Contents
1 Temporal Bone Tumors and Metastatic Disease
2 Cholesteatoma and Its Complications
3 Anomalies of the Inner Ear
4 Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss
5 Trauma to the Inner Ear
6 Otosclerosis
7 Presbycusis
8 Ménière’s Syndrome
9 Benign Positional Vertigo
10 Meningioma
11 Vestibular Schwannoma
12 Other Cranial Nerve Schwannomas and Paragangliomas
13 Ototoxicity
Index