Textbook of Otitis Media

Definitions, terminology, and classification.- Otitis media: BASIC CONCEPTS AND FUNDAMENTALS.- Otitis media and human efforts to deal with it through time.- Development of the Middle Ear and Functional anatomy of the Eustachian Tube, Middle Ear, and Mastoid complex.- Normal Histology of the Eustachian Tube, Middle Ear, and Mastoid Complex: The mucoperiosteum concept.- Understanding the Aeration Avenues of the Middle Ear with the aid of the endoscope.- Regulated balance of pressure variations in the temporal pneumatic spaces.- Role of immunity in the development of otitis media.- When to suspect and how to evaluate immune deficiencies in otitis media.- Genetics and Otitis Media.- Predictive medicine in otitis media.- Importance of Animal studies in the understanding of otitis media.- Critical Appraisal of published research in otitis media or how to sort the wheat from the chaff!.- Translational Histopathology in Otitis Media: The real evidence-based medicine!.- Patulous Eustachian Tube and the differential diagnosis of Autophony.- Office examination in otitis media.- Non-surgical strategies to restore middle ear aeration.- Drug delivery across the intact tympanic membrane: methods, mechanisms and potential impact.- Viral otitis media AND ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA and Recurrent acute otitis media. An evidence-based approach.- The microbiology of otitis media, biofilms and its implication in the clinical treatment.- Otitis Media with Effusion: Pathophysiology, clinical picture and management.- Biochemistry of pathogenesis of OM-an update.- Adhesive otitis media.- Ventilation Tubes.- POST-TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE Otorrhea AND OTHER COMPLICATIONS.- Vaccination policies in otitis media.- Managing risk factors in otitis media.- Otitis media in special populations.- Early in life otitis media and its impact in hearing, speech development and central auditory processing.- Balance and otitis media.- The use of topical treatment and middle-inner ear interaction.- Silent otitis media and subtle complications.- Complications of Otitis Media limited to within the temporal bone.- Intracranial complications of otitis media.- Basic imaging and normal temporal bone sections.- Evaluation and auditory rehabilitation in chronic otitis media (Com).- Pathogenesis of Chronic Otitis media and the continuum: The basics, further and beyond.- Chronic otitis media without cholesteatoma.- Tympanic membrane perforations and Tympanoplasty: new profiles, new strategies.- Ossicular Pathology in Chronic Otitis media.- Tympanic membrane retractions: pathophysiology, classification and management.- Temporal Bone Cholesteatomas: The full picture.- Progress in Cholesteatoma Research.- Advanced Hearing and Balance evaluation in otitis media.- RADIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF THE TEMPORAL BONE IN CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA.- Surgical Anatomy of the Temporal bone and Middle ear surgery.- Endoscopic Anatomy of the Temporal Bone.- Surgical treatment of chronic otitis media: menu of solutions.- Tympanoplasty: the underlay technique step by step and the complex tympanosplasty.- Tympanoplasty: the overlay technique step by step.- Tympanoplasty: the inlay technique step by step.- Medio-lateral tympanoplasty for anterior or subtotal TM perforation.- Flexible tympanoplasty: pathology guided pathogenesis oriented middle ear surgery.- Principles of surgical management of cholesteatoma.- Mastoidectomy going down or keeping up: a 60-years old unsolved dilemma.- Simple mastoidectomy: indications and techniques.- Canal wall Up Tympanomastoidectomy.- Canal Wall Down Tympanomastoidectomy.- Endoscopic Assisted Canal Wall Up TM: the combined approach redefined.- Intact Bridge Tympanomastoidectomy.- Radical Mastoidectomy: Indications, technique and pitfalls.- Local management of the Mastoidectomy cavity.- Reconstruction of the Mastoid cavity.- Is there a role for the subtotal Petrosectomy in the treatment of chronic otitis media?