Surgical Treatment of Intractable Vertigo. Paramedian Suboccipital Vestibular Neurectomy.
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Labyrinthectomy and Vestibular Neurectomy for Intractable Vertiginous Symptoms
Introduction Labyrinthectomy and vestibular neurectomy are considered the surgical procedures with the highest possibility of controlling medically untreatable incapacitating vertigo. Ironically, after 100 years of the introduction of both transmastoid labyrinthectomy and vestibular neurectomy, the choice of which procedure to use rests primarily on the evaluation of the hearing and of the surg...
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عنوان ژورنال: Equilibrium Research
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0385-5716,1882-577X
DOI: 10.3757/jser.59.38