Author/Editor		Šprem, Nikola; Branica, Srećko; Dawidowsky, Krsto; Kovač, Lana
Title		Histological study of stapes suprastructure in otosclerosis
Type		članek
Source		Med Razgl
Vol. and No.		Letnik 43, št. Suppl 3
Publication year		2004
Volume		str. 21-3
Language		eng
Abstract		The interest in otosclerosis is very old. The first person to describe stapes ankylosis was Valsalva in 1735 (1). The first studies of histological changes in otosclerosis were done by Politzer in 1893 (2-3). In addition, there have been some famous histological studies from Guild, Ruedi, Spoendlin and Nylen (4-6). The list of authors who were interested in the histology of otosclerosis is extremely long. However, some authors described histological changes similar to otosclerosis even in other auditory ossicles. Cowell, for example, described changes resembling an otosclerotic plaque in the incus as early as 1940 (7). At our clinic, the main technique for resolving the problem of otosclerosis since 1977 has been stapedotomy. For histological analysis, only the removed stapes suprastructure can be used (8). This paper reports our results of histological analyses of removed stapes suprastructure in otosclerosis.
Descriptors		OTOSCLEROSIS STAPES SURGERY STAPES TREATMENT OUTCOME