Inner ear impairment after stapedotomy: do the cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials play a diagnostic role?

Background: Otosclerosis is characterized by a bony remodeling process that ends up with stapes fixation. The hearing impairment can be recovered by surgery by replacing the stapes superstructure. Due to the surgical management of the vestibule, the vestibular examination could provide an insight into the correlation between this kind of surgery and vestibular changes.