A Pocket Guide to the Ear : A Concise Clinical Text on the Ear and Its Disorders

Hearing and Basic Audiometric Concepts 1(6) Pure Tone Audiometry 1(2) Speech Audiometry 3(1) Conductive vs. Sensorineural Hearing Loss 4(3) Equipment and Ear Examination Methods 7(6) Basic Equipment 7(3) Advanced Equipment 10(3) Useful Anatomy and Function 13(13) The External Ear 13(2) The Middle Ear 15(6) The Inner Ear 21(5) Disorders of the External Ear 26(25) Temporomandibular Joint Syndrome 26(3) Neuralgias Involving the Ear 29(2) Hematoma of the Auricle 31(1) Perichondritis of the Auricle 32(1) Congenital Disorders of the External Ear 33(2) Noncongenital Cysts and Keloids of the Auricle 35(1) Skin Disorders of the External Meatus 36(2) Otitis Externa 38(5) Other Chronic External Ear Disorders 43(1) Cerumen Accumulations and Keratoses 44(1) Trauma and Foreign Bodies 45(3) Tumors of the External Ear 48(3) Disorders of the Middle Ear 51(30) The Eustachian Tube 51(2) Myringitis 53(1) Tympanic Membrane Perforations 54(3) Scarring and Tympanosclerosis 57(2) Acute Otitis Media 59(1) Acute Mastoiditis 59(2) Retraction of the Tympanic Membrane 61(1) Middle Ear Effusions 62(3) Ear Effusions in the Young--Special Considerations 65(2) Atelectasis and Retraction Pockets 67(1) Adhesive Otitis Media 68(2) Cholesteatoma 70(3) Unusual Eustachian Tube Disorders 73(2) Otosclerosis 75(1) Congenital Ossicular Abnormalities 76(1) Middle Ear Tumors 77(1) Spontaneous Perilymph Fistula 78(1) Overview of Mastoiditis 79(2) Disorders of the Facial Nerve 81(7) Bell's Palsy 82(2) Ramsay-Hunt Syndrome 84(1) Infection and Facial Paralysis 85(1) Trauma and Facial Paralysis 85(1) Other Causes of Facial Paralysis 86(2) Auditory Disorders of the Inner Ear 88(23) Tinnitus 89(3) Ototoxicity 92(1) Presbycusis 93(2) Noise-Induced Hearing Loss 95(2) Nonorganic Hearing Loss 97(1) Congenital and Hereditary Disorders 97(3) Infectious Causes of Sensorineural Loss 100(2) Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss 102(1) Meniere's Disease 103(4) Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease 107(1) Cerebellopontine Angle Tumors 108(1) Chapter Summary 109(2) Vestibular Disorders of the Inner Ear 111(13) Vertigo 111(1) Disequilibrium 112(1) Nonvestibular Dizziness 113(1) Nystagmus and Electronystagmography 114(3) Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo 117(2) Vestibular Neuronitis 119(1) Meniere's Disease, Revisited 120(1) Cervical Vertigo 120(1) Vascular Disorders 121(1) Circumscribed Labyrinthitis 121(1) Motion Sickness 122(2) Epilogue 124(4) ``Top Ten'' Clinical Misjudgments in Ear Disorders 125(3) Glossary 128(9) Acronyms and Abbreviations 137(2) Index 139