Neuro-Otology
Otology is the branch of medicine that focuses on diseases and disorders of the ear,
including hearing and balance disorders and injuries or diseases of the skull base. A
neurotologist provides surgical care to the nerves that connect the ear and brain, which
includes treatment of hearing loss, tinnitus, dizziness, infectious and inflammatory
diseases of the ear, facial nerve disorders, congenital malformations of the ear, and
tumors of the ear, hearing nerve, and skull base. The following are the most prevalent
conditions in neurotology and otology:
- Acoustic Neuroma
- Adult & Pediatric Ear Disease
- All Tumors Affecting The Ear, Temporal Bone, Or Posterior Fossa
- Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease
- BAHA
- Cholesteatoma, Chronic Otitis Media
- Chronic Ear Infections (Draining, Cholesteatoma, Ear Canal Infections)
- Dizziness/Vertigo
- Ear Infections & Surgery
- Facial Nerve Paralysis
- Glomus Tumors
- Hearing Implants
- Hearing Loss
- Meniere’s Disease
- Migraine–Associated Dizziness
- Myringotomy
- Other Central Nervous System or General Medical Causes Of Imbalance And Dizziness
- Otosclerosis
- Positional Vertigo
- Progressive Hearing Loss (From Early Hearing Loss To Profound Deafness)
- Ramsay–Hunt Syndrome
- Sudden Hearing Losses
- Superior Canal Dehiscence
- Swimmers Ear
- Tumors Of The Ear Canal Or Middle Ear
- Vestibular Neuritis
- Vestibular Schwannoma