Histopathology of the vestibular end organs after intratympanic gentamicin failure for Meniere's disease

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 34-40

  Ishiyama, Gail ^a   Lopez, Ivan ^a   Baloh, Robert W ^a   Ishiyama, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoglycoside; Design based unbiased stereology; Human vestibular periphery; Inner ear; Morphometry; Ototoxicity; Vestibular hair cell

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; HAIR CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABYRINTHECTOMY; MALE; MENIERE DISEASE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSMASTOID LABYRINTHECTOMY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; UTRICLE; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ATROPHY; EAR, INNER; GENTAMICINS; HAIR CELLS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MASTOID; MENIERE'S DISEASE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECURRENCE; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT FAILURE; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE; VERTIGO; VESTIBULE;

EID: 33847000885     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480600672600     Document Type: Article

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