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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-6-8
pubmed:abstractText
Our earlier animal experiments on guinea pigs showed that instrumental perforation of the round window membrane by a 0.2 mm platinum wire leads to an instant loss of the inner ear functions. The membrane defect healed in a few days, the cochlear structures remained intact, and the compound action potential of the auditory nerve and the brain-stem responses could be evoked again with normal latency times within 2 weeks. 1. In the studies reported here we first carried out microperforations with a 1 micron needle electrode, which caused no changes of the hearing potentials (cochlear microphonics, compound action potential of the auditory nerve, brain-stem responses), and no visible defect of the round window membrane and no perilymph outflow. 2. The removal of the round window membrane and the withdrawal of the perilymph led to a loss of the cochlear microphonics and to a considerable increase of the latency times of wave I (Jewett). The hearing potential regained their original values after 2 weeks without closure of the round window niche. The round window membrane had regenerated spontaneously and the scala tympani was again filled with perilymph. After covering the round window niche with a connective tissue graft, the hearing potentials regained their original values after 2 weeks, as they had done without cover of the round window niche. The round window membrane regenerated below the tissue graft and the scala tympani was also filled again with perilymph.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
pubmed:language
ger
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0017-6192
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
36
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
106-10
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
[Microperforation and removal of the round window membrane. Short- and long-term study in animal experiments using electrocochleography and evoked response audiometry].
pubmed:affiliation
HNO-Klinik der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract