Surgery for Cochlea-Facial Nerve Dehiscence: Symptoms and Tuning Fork Testing
Channel: EarInformation
Date: 2019-04-14

This 18 year old young woman had cognitive dysfunction, migraine headaches and sound-induced dizziness. She was found to have a right cochlea-facial nerve dehiscence producing her right third window syndrome. She was treated with round window reinforcement surgery on the right when she was 19 years old. This video provides a background of how the peripheral vestibular system works, what patients experience with third window syndrome, what she experienced clinically and how her symptoms resolved over time. A series of 6 videos of her capture her experience before surgery and after surgery.