The Vestibular System and Its Diseases : : Transactions of the International Vestibular Symposium of the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania / / ed. by Robert Joseph Wolfson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Altmann, Franz,; Anson, Barry J.,; Arslan, Michele,; Bender, M. B.,; Carpenter, Malcolm B.,; Cohen, Bernard,; Dolowitz, David A.,; Ende, Hendrik van den,; Fields, William S.,; Fodor, Francis M.,; Gacek, Richard R.,; Graybiel, Ashton,; Guedry, F. E.,; Guilford, Fred R.,; Hallpike, C. S.,; Harper, David G.,; Harrison, M. Spencer,; Hilger, Jerome A.,; House, William F.,; Jongkees, L. B. W.,; Jordan, Raymond E.,; Lindsay, John R.,; McCabe, Brian F.,; McGee, T. Manford,; Miller, Earl F.,; Naftalin, L.,; Schuknecht, Harold F.,; Sciarra, P. A.,; Spoendlin, H.,; Stahle, Jan,; Weiss, Alfred D.,; Winch, Thomas R.,; Winchester, Richard A.,; Wolfson, Robert J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Wolfson, Robert Joseph,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1966
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (560 p.)

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contributors -- Contents -- Developmental and Adult Anatomy of the Membranous Labyrinth in Man -- Ultrastructure of the Vestibular Sense Organ -- The Ascending Vestibular System and Its Relationship to Conjugate Horizontal Eye Movements -- The Vestibular Efferent Pathway -- Further Observations on the Mechanism of Vestibular Suppression -- The Relationship of the Semicircular Canals to Induced Head and Eye Movements in Mammals -- Discussion -- Biochemistry of the Labyrinthine Fluids -- Experimental Meniere's Disease -- The Caloric Test: A Review of Its Principles and Practice with Especial Reference to the Phenomenon of Directional Preponderance -- The Parallel Swing Test -- Ocular Counterrolling -- Modification of Vestibular Responses Induced by Unnatural Patterns of Vestibular Stimulation -- Discussion -- Electronystagmography - Its Value as a Diagnostic Tool -- Laterotorsion -- Discussion -- Calorization in Relation to Otoneurologic Diagnosis -- Discussion -- Electronystagmography: Its Perspective, Advantages, and Limitations in Routine Vestibular Testing -- Discussion -- The Evaluation of the Caloric Test -- Audiologic Patterns in Vestibular Disorders -- Diagnostic Significance of Vertigo -- Discussion -- Meniere's Disease: Pathology and Manifestations -- Some Observations on the Character and Mechanism of Spontaneous Nystagmus in Subjects with Tumors of the VIII Nerve -- Benign Positional Vertigo -- The Pathophysiology of Angle Tumors -- Surgery of Eighth Nerve Tumors -- Discussion -- Vestibular Problems in Relation to Space Travel -- Vestibular Neuritis -- Discussion -- Vertigo Related to Alteration in Arterial Blood Flow -- Discussion -- Medical Treatment of Meniere's Disease -- Surgical Treatment of Meniere's Disease -- Experimental Use of Ultrasonic Sound -- Ultrasonic Destruction of the Vestibular Receptors -- Labyrinthine Surgery for Vertigo -- Discussion -- Summary of Vestibular Symposium