Vestibular Otopathology

Vestibular
Otopathology

   

• Merchant
  SN (Massachusetts Eye and Ear
  Informary, Boston ;Harvard Med School,Boston)
  
  
  A
  Method for 
  Quantitative Assessment of
  Vestibular Otopathology
  
  
  Laryngoscope
  109: 1560-1569,1999
  
     
  
  
  The
  above center is established by
  Shuknecht to study histopathology
  of Temporal Bone section . The 
  author 
  now in –charge has
  developed a new method to quantify
  the vestibular cells of types I
  and II and way to assess the the
  damage of vestibular organ . Such
  studies in the past have been done
  by 
  building up sections of
  cochlea to assess hearing 
  otopathology and were
  correlated with the Audiometric
  findings.So far such method
  existed to quantify the vestibular
  cells damage in vestibular
  otopathology. The significance of
  this is that it will help 
  to correlate with the
  functional data obtained from
  vestibular testings. However this
  is still not newly as specific as
  in data achieved in cochlea.