Diseases of the Inner Ear A Clinical, Radiologic and Pathologic Atla

It is by your own eyes and your ears and your own mind and (I may add) your own heart that you must observe and love Sir William Osler It has been just over 20 years that Hawke and Jahn’s seminal book entitled Diseases of the Ear: Clinical and Pathologic

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Masoud Motasaddi Zarandy John Rutka

Diseases of the Inner Ear A Clinical, Radiologic and Pathologic Atlas

Masoud Motasaddi Zarandy, MD Professor Tehran University of Medical Sciences Amiralam Hospital Cochlear Implant Dept. Saadi Ave. Tehran Iran [email protected]

John Rutka, MD, FRCSC Professor University of Toronto Dept. Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Centre for Advanced Hearing 200 Elizabeth St. Toronto ON M5G 2C4 Canada [email protected]

ISBN: 978-3-642-05057-2     e-ISBN: 978-3-642-05058-9 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-05058-9 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010920823 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is ­concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant ­protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Product liability: The publishers cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information about dosage and application contained in this book. In every individual case the user must check such information by consulting the relevant literature. Cover design: eStudio Calamar, Figueres/Berlin Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface

It is by your own eyes and your ears and your own mind and (I may add) your own heart that you must observe and love Sir William Osler

It has been just over 20 years that Hawke and Jahn’s seminal book entitled Diseases of the Ear: Clinical and Pathologic Aspects was published. The book was unique from other textbooks in otology at the time and concentrated its message according to two well-known proverbs in English literature namely “A picture is worth a thousand words” and “Seeing is believing.” Dr. Masoud Motasaddi Zarandy has taken these twin concepts, and in the process, has produced a very beautiful and a visually pleasing book. The pictures and accompanying text allows the reader not only to see how different pathologies affect the inner ear but also to appreciate the clinical consequences that arise from our decisionmaking processes. Far from dry, the inner ear and skull base comes to life when we see the dynamics of how disease involves this complex and integral part of the body. For the uninitiated, this book takes us on a tour of the field that has evolved over the past decade into the formal discipline of neurotolo