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The surgical treatment of vertigo.
These treatments destroy all or part of the labyrinth, or deconnect it from the vestibular centres. 1. Labyrinthectomy a) Total labyrinthectomy This procedure may be either chemical or surgical. The intratympanic application of Gentamycin is the gold standard for the treatment of intractable chronic vertigo of the kind found in Ménière's disease. 1-4 Ideally, the aminoglycosides are administere...
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Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is a very common vestibular disorder, characterized by episodic vertigo following certain provocative head movements. It is considered to be the most frequent type of peripheral vertigo, although estimates regarding its frequency among patients with this type of symptoms vary between 5 and 40%.1,2 Since the histopathologic studies of Schuknecht and Ru...
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Introduction Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is a generally benign condition that responds to repositioning maneuvers and frequently resolves spontaneously. However, for some patients it can become a disabling condition in which surgery must be considered. Two different surgical techniques exist, singular neurectomy and posterior semicircular canal occlusion. Objective The objective of thi...
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When studying about the evolution of modern day Neurotology, I always find myself amazed with the developments that occurred at thebeginningof the20th century. As earlyas 1898, Fedor Krause, considered the father of German neurosurgery, performed the first vestibulocochlear nerve section to treat a patient with severe tinnitus. In 1904, Charles Harrison Frazier, who had trained in Germany and l...
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Although our understanding of the mechanisms of vertigo and pathophysiology of vertiginous disorders has increased, diagnosis and treatment of various vertiginous diseases is challenging. The objective for the treatment of a vertiginous disease is to eliminate the underlying pathology either with maneuvers or drugs. In vertiginous diseases, surgery is performed either to eliminate the underlyin...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Practica Oto-Rhino-Laryngologica
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1884-4545,0032-6313
DOI: 10.5631/jibirin.91.1178