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edited by Robert K. Jackler, MD, and Derald E. Brackmann, 1410 pp, with illus, $249, ISBN 0-323-01830-0, Philadelphia, Pa, Elsevier Mosby, 2005.

Arch Neurol. 2005;62:1171.

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This is the second edition of this text originally published in 1994. The book provides a good overview of the field of medical and surgical neurotology. There are 141 contributing authors covering topics in 11 major topic sections.

There is an introductory section on the history of the field including skull base surgery. The first section includes chapters on anatomy, physiology, and histology of the auditory and vestibular systems followed by a chapter on genetics in neurotology that reviews genetic hearing loss but not the genetics of episodic ataxia and vertigo syndromes.

The section on neurotologic disease is organized by clinical symptom presentation such as hearing loss, vestibular symptoms, tinnitus, and so on. The next section on neurotologic diagnosis reviews the examination and most of the vestibular and audiologic testing techniques. The fourth section is on imaging of the labyrinth, skull base, cerebellopontine angle, and facial nerve. There are generous . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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