TY - BOOK ID - 78148067 TI - The History of Otosclerosis Treatment PY - 2014 SN - 906299864X 9789062998647 9062992366 9789062992362 9789062992362 PB - The Hague Kugler Publications DB - UniCat KW - Otosclerosis. KW - Otology KW - Ear KW - Otolaryngology KW - Otospongiosis KW - Deafness KW - Labyrinth (Ear) KW - History. KW - Diseases. KW - Diseases UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78148067 AB - PrefaceHearing loss due to otosclerosis has been a subject of many different treatments. Since the understanding at the end of the nineteenth century that the disease was located in and around the cochlea and that it produces conducting and also perceptive hearing loss, all kinds of medical as well as surgical treatments have been applied to cure the disease. Most of the treatments have fallen into oblivion after the successful introduction of the stapedectomy in the late fifties of the last century. This book tries to highlight almost all possible treatments for otosclerosis presented in lite ER -