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

by Menner, Albert L.

• ISBN13: 9781588901392
• ISBN10: 1588901394
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Thieme Medical Pub
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Summary

For the daily primary care practice, the disorders that affect the ear often pose diagnostic difficulties. Taken from the author's long experience in ENT practice, this concise volume will give you decisive clues on the way to a correct diagnosis. The primary care physician's gatekeeper function is supported by expert advice on when an ENT specialist should be consulted.

Table of Contents

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