Analysis and Management of Some Stapedectomy Failures

Particular Features in the Functional State of the Auditory and Vestibular Analysers Prior to and following Stapes Surgery for Otosclerosis

“…As to evaluation of the post-operative lesions, their opinions differ. Some of the authors (Goodhill and Holcomb, 1957;Guillon, i960;Hladky, 1962;Scheer, 1959) consider all those lesions to be a postoperative serous labyrinthitis; the majority of investigators, however, distinguish among them two types of post-operative labyrinthine response: an early reaction of the labyrinth to surgical trauma termed as labyrinthose (Lewis, 1961;Myers, Schlosser, Wolfson and Winchester, 1962) or labyrinthization (Causse, 1964;Vitale, 1963), and labyrinthitis.…”