Summary
In the eleven years since the introduction of the first commercially available scanning electron microscope, a number of otologic studies have made use of this new technique. However, the literature contains only one report of scanning ultrastructure of the endolymphatic surface of the stria vascularis. We have studied the stria vascularis with a technique allowing examination of the mid-modiolar cut surface as well as the endolymphatic surface.
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Abbreviations
- Figure legends — 1SP:
-
lower spiral prominence
- uSP:
-
upper spiral prominence
- E:
-
endolymphatic
- CS:
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cut surface
- c:
-
capillaries
- S:
-
sinus
- SL:
-
spiral ligament
- SEM:
-
scanning electron microscope (microscopy)
- TEM:
-
transmission electron microscope
- Å:
-
angstrom
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Horn, K.L., Ende, M.J., Lynn, B.S. et al. Scanning ultrastructure of the stria vascularis. Arch Otorhinolaryngol 215, 35–43 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00463189
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