Textbook of Otitis Media : The Basics and Beyond / edited by Marcos V. Goycoolea, Sady Selaimen da Costa, Chris de Souza, Michael M. Paparella.

Definitions, terminology, and classification -- Otitis media: BASIC CONCEPTS AND FUNDAMENTALS -- Otitis media and human efforts to deal with it through time -- Development of the Middle Ear and Functional anatomy of the Eustachian Tube, Middle Ear, and Mastoid complex -- Normal Histology of the Eustachian Tube, Middle Ear, and Mastoid Complex: The mucoperiosteum concept -- Understanding the Aeration Avenues of the Middle Ear with the aid of the endoscope -- Regulated balance of pressure variations in the temporal pneumatic spaces -- Role of immunity in the development of otitis media -- When to suspect and how to evaluate immune deficiencies in otitis media -- Genetics and Otitis Media -- Predictive medicine in otitis media -- Importance of Animal studies in the understanding of otitis media -- Critical Appraisal of published research in otitis media or how to sort the wheat from the chaff! -- Translational Histopathology in Otitis Media: The real evidence-based medicine! -- Patulous Eustachian Tube and the differential diagnosis of Autophony -- Office examination in otitis media -- Non-surgical strategies to restore middle ear aeration -- Drug delivery across the intact tympanic membrane: methods, mechanisms and potential impact -- Viral otitis media AND ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA and Recurrent acute otitis media. An evidence-based approach -- The microbiology of otitis media, biofilms and its implication in the clinical treatment -- Otitis Media with Effusion: Pathophysiology, clinical picture and management -- Biochemistry of pathogenesis of OM-an update -- Adhesive otitis media -- Ventilation Tubes -- POST-TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE Otorrhea AND OTHER COMPLICATIONS -- Vaccination policies in otitis media -- Managing risk factors in otitis media -- Otitis media in special populations -- Early in life otitis media and its impact in hearing, speech development and central auditory processing -- Balance and otitis media -- The use of topical treatment and middle-inner ear interaction -- Silent otitis media and subtle complications -- Complications of Otitis Media limited to within the temporal bone -- Intracranial complications of otitis media -- Basic imaging and normal temporal bone sections -- Evaluation and auditory rehabilitation in chronic otitis media (Com) -- Pathogenesis of Chronic Otitis media and the continuum: The basics, further and beyond -- Chronic otitis media without cholesteatoma -- Tympanic membrane perforations and Tympanoplasty: new profiles, new strategies -- Ossicular Pathology in Chronic Otitis media -- Tympanic membrane retractions: pathophysiology, classification and management -- Temporal Bone Cholesteatomas: The full picture -- Progress in Cholesteatoma Research -- Advanced Hearing and Balance evaluation in otitis media -- RADIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF THE TEMPORAL BONE IN CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA -- Surgical Anatomy of the Temporal bone and Middle ear surgery -- Endoscopic Anatomy of the Temporal Bone -- Surgical treatment of chronic otitis media: menu of solutions -- Tympanoplasty: the underlay technique step by step and the complex tympanosplasty -- Tympanoplasty: the overlay technique step by step -- Tympanoplasty: the inlay technique step by step -- Medio-lateral tympanoplasty for anterior or subtotal TM perforation -- Flexible tympanoplasty: pathology guided pathogenesis oriented middle ear surgery -- Principles of surgical management of cholesteatoma -- Mastoidectomy going down or keeping up: a 60-years old unsolved dilemma -- Simple mastoidectomy: indications and techniques -- Canal wall Up Tympanomastoidectomy -- Canal Wall Down Tympanomastoidectomy -- Endoscopic Assisted Canal Wall Up TM: the combined approach redefined -- Intact Bridge Tympanomastoidectomy -- Radical Mastoidectomy: Indications, technique and pitfalls -- Local management of the Mastoidectomy cavity -- Reconstruction of the Mastoid cavity -- Is there a role for the subtotal Petrosectomy in the treatment of chronic otitis media?