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- Title
Cochleosacculotomy for meniere's disease: Theory, technique and results.
- Authors
Schuknecht, Harold F.
- Abstract
A series of 51 patients with intractable vertigo from Meniere's disease were treated by a surgical procedure termed cochleosacculotomy. In this operation a right-angled pick is introduced through the round window membrane and advanced 3 mm in the direction of the oval window. This passage carries the pick through the cochlear partition causing a fracture-disruption of the osseous spiral lamina and cochlear duct. Within the time limits of this study (mean 4.32 months) 88% were relieved of disabling vertigo. Hearing losses of more than 20 dB occurred in 23% of the patients. Profound hearing losses occurred in two patients, one of which was associated with postoperative otitis media.
- Publication
Laryngoscope, 1982, Vol 92, Issue 8, p853
- ISSN
0023-852X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1288/00005537-198208000-00004