Includes bibliographical references and index.

General requirements for anesthesia in routine ear and skull base operations / Frank Milo Clark, Martin Nitsun, and Joseph W. Szokol -- Audiometric requirements prior to ear surgery: pitfalls / Paul R. Kileny and Wayne E. Berryhill -- Intraoperative monitoring of cranial nerves during otological surgery: prevention and limitation of inadvertent injury / Kevin E. Novak, Emmanuel K. Nenonene, and Lawrence P. Bernstein -- Imaging of the temporal bone / Galdino E. Valvassori -- Correction of congenital malformations / Antonio De La Cruz and Marlan R. Hansen -- Risks and complications of tympanoplasty / Jay B. Farrior -- Evaluating blunt temporal bone trauma / Elizabeth A. Dinces, Harold H. Kim, and Richard J. Wiet -- Prevention of complications in stapes surgery / Rodney Perkins -- Ossicular chain reconstruction: maximizing success and minimizing errors / Jack M. Kartush and Seilesh C. Babu --

Avoiding complications of cochlear implant surgery / Noel L. Cohen and Michelle S. Marrinan -- Surgery for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo / Robert A. Battista -- Meniere's disease: diagnosis and management / Richard J. Wiet and Harold H. Kim -- The diagnosis and surgical management of dizziness and vertigo / Arvind Kumar and Emilio García Ibáñez -- Meniett device and chemical labyrinthectomy for unilateral cochleovestibular Meniere's disease / George A. Gates -- Temporal bone pathology related to chronic ear disease / Bruce M. Wenig -- Intact canal wall tympanomastoidectomy / Doug D. Massick and D. Bradley Welling -- Philosophy of cholesteatoma management / Jose N. Fayad and Simon C. Parisier -- Obliteration operations / Carlos R. Esquivel and Julie T. Kerr -- Cholesterol granuloma / Derald E. Brackmann and Stephanie A. Moody-Antonio --

Complications of cholesteatoma and chronic otitis media with effusion / Stephanie A. Moody-Antonio and William H. Slattery III -- Management of acoustic neuromas / Richard J. Wiet and Steven Ho -- Middle ear and skull base glomus tumors: tympanic and tympanojugular paragangliomas / Mario Sanna ... [et al.] -- Rarer tumors of the middle ear and temporal bone / Derald E. Brackmann and Stephanie A. Moody-Antonio -- Tumors of the facial nerve / Thomas E. Linder and Ugo P. Fisch -- Surgery in Bell's palsy and in traumatic facial paralysis / Arvind Kumar -- Facial reanimation and eye care / David Goldenberg and Barry L. Wenig -- Office-based minor surgery: otoendoscopy and inner ear perfusion / Herbert Silverstein and Lance E. Jackson -- Neuronavigation in the temporal bone / Bernard Fraysse, Harold H. Kim, and Richard J. Wiet -- The implantable middle ear amplifier / John M. Fredrickson and A.U. Bankaitis -- Intratympanic therapy for sudden hearing loss / Sujana S. Chandrasekhar.