A clear, authoritative guide to ear pathology that helps you see disease through the microscope of dissection.
This nonfiction text surveys the ear from the drum to the inner labyrinth, explaining how structure and function relate to disease. It emphasizes the tympanum, ossicles, the Eustachian tube, the mastoid, and the auditory nerve, with discussion of malformations, inflammation, tumors, and degenerative changes.
The book gathers a wide range of topics into a single reference, outlining how changes in the delicate mucous membrane, middle-ear space, and ossicular chain can disturb hearing. It also covers how ruptures of the drum-membrane occur, how they heal, and what long-term effects may follow, all grounded in detailed pathological observation.
- Understand how the tympanum and ossicles contribute to sound transmission and how disease alters their movement.
- Learn about common and rare malformations, their implications for hearing, and how they reshape the ear’s anatomy.
- See how inflammation, adhesions, ulcers, and tumors arise within the middle ear and how they affect nearby structures.
- Explore how the inner ear and auditory nerve can be involved by disease, including the role of tumors and degeneration.
Ideal for students and professionals seeking a thorough, pathologist’s view of ear disease, from surface changes to deep nerve involvement.