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Middle Ear Compartments

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The middle ear cavity is anatomically and functionally not only a sole chamber, but a complex of interconnected compartments. The objective of this chapter is to present a detailed and exhaustive description of these compartments, their frontiers, their relationship and their communication pathways in order to better understand the pathogenesis of inflammatory middle ear diseases and cholesteatoma.

The chapter, even based on the traditional division of the middle ear in five compartment, illustrates in detail several anatomo -functional units that have a crucial pathophysiological impact and play a major role in ME diseases management. Such correlation is clarified in this second edition by an addendum about middle ear aeration pressure regulation.

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  1. Amoudi Center, Mazraa Blvd, Beirut, Lebanon

    Salah Mansour

  2. Clinique CAUSSE, Colombiers, France

    Jacques Magnan

  3. Hamad Medical Corporation, Weill Cornell Medicine, Doha, Qatar

    Hassan Haidar Ahmad

  4. Bsalim Hospital, Middle East Institute of Health, Mount Lebanon, Lebanon

    Karen Nicolas

  5. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté de Médecine, Laboratoire d’Anatomie, Biomécanique et Organogenèse, Brussels, Belgium

    Stéphane Louryan

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Mansour, S., Magnan, J., Ahmad, H.H., Nicolas, K., Louryan, S. (2019). Middle Ear Compartments. In: Comprehensive and Clinical Anatomy of the Middle Ear. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15363-2_4

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