Survey of Ménière's disease in a subspecialty referral practice.

Objectives: To define the prevalence of definite Ménière's disease (MD) among patients presenting with characteristic symptoms and examine the utility of published diagnostic guidelines.

Study Design And Setting: Retrospective review in an academic referral practice.

Results: The prevalence of definite MD in these 295 individuals was 64%.

Otomycosis: clinical features and treatment implications.

Objectives: To determine the clinical presentation, predisposing factors, complications, and treatment outcomes of otomycosis.

Study Design And Setting: Retrospective review of 132 patients with a clinical diagnosis of otomycosis treated from 1998 to 2004 in an academic otology practice.

Results: Otalgia and otorrhea were the most common presenting complaints (48%).

Invasive cerebrospinal fluid cysts and cephaloceles of the petrous apex.

Objective: To describe the presentation, diagnostic evaluation, and surgical management of petrous apex cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cysts and cephaloceles.

Study Design: Retrospective case review.

Setting: Tertiary referral center.

Adult spontaneous CSF otorrhea: correlation with radiographic empty sella.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of radiographic empty sella in patients with spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) otorrhea.

Study Design And Setting: Retrospective case series of adult patients with CSF otorhinorrhea at an academic tertiary medical center. Patients with history of skull base surgery, trauma, tumor, or chronic ear disease were excluded.

Stapes surgery in the United States.

Objective: A contemporary analysis of trends in the surgical management of otosclerosis in the United States is presented.

Data Sources: U.S.

Coronal computed tomography prevalence of superior semicircular canal dehiscence.

Objectives: The relatively new clinical entity superior canal dehiscence syndrome (SCDS) is diagnosed by clinical symptoms and signs. Coronal computed tomography (CT) has been used to confirm the diagnosis. A consecutive series of temporal bone CT scans was reviewed to define the prevalence of a dehiscent-appearing superior semicircular canal.

Inflammatory pseudotumor of the temporal bone.

Objective: To characterize the clinical presentation, imaging characteristics, intraoperative findings, and key histopathologic features of inflammatory pseudotumors of the temporal bone. Findings from an index case are presented, and the literature is reviewed for comparison.

Study Design: Retrospective case review.

Delayed-onset facial paralysis after vestibular neurectomy.

Objectives/hypothesis: Delayed-onset facial paralysis (beginning more than 3 d after the procedure) has been described as a complication of many different types of otological procedures. The incidence of this problem in vestibular neurectomy and the relationship to surgical approach are detailed in the study.

Study Design: Retrospective case review.