Transcanal approach to the singular nerve

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 542-546

  Kos, Maria Izabel ^a   Feigl, Georg ^b   Anderhuber, Friedrich ^c   Wall, Conrad ^d   Fasel, Jean H D ^b   Guyot, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Singular neurectomy; Surgery for benign positional vertigo; Vertigo

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DISSECTION; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; MALE; NERVE; NEURECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SINGULAR NERVE; SURGICAL APPROACH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CADAVER; DENERVATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; SEMICIRCULAR DUCTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

EID: 33745249952     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129492-200606000-00017     Document Type: Article

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