The endoscope allows for better inspection for cholesteatoma in cases with chronic otitis media, better access to selective epitympanic poor ventilation and secondary selective chronic otitis media, better visualization of anterior poor ventilation of the mesotympanum (reestablishing adequate ventilation to the mesotympanum), better visualization and reconstruction of anterior tympanic membrane...

A case of ankylosing spondylitis with aortic valve disease and hearing loss is described. A series of radiographic and audiometric investigations showed the hearing loss to be of a conductive type. It seemed most likely that the hearing loss was related to an inflammatory involvement of the ossicular joints due to the primary disease. No other case of conductive hearing loss has previously been...

Involvement of the ossicular chain by temporal bone disease can seldom be evaluated adequately on routine axial and coronal CT views [1-5]. Direct sagittal tomography views delineate these structures clearly [6, 7], but CT views require considerable manipulation of cooperative patients and are seldom reproducible in the exact planes in repeated examinations [8, 9]. High-resolution lateral obliq...