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Although the main pathological findings in patients with Meniere’s disease is distention of the entire endolymphatic system (Yamakawa 1938; Hallpike et al. 1938), its diagnosis depends upon the history and the different symptoms. Therefore, development of a practical tool to obtain direct evidence of the existence of endolymphatic hydrops is potentially important. We have reported the fine structure of the inner ear of a fixed, decalcified, celloidin-embedded human temporal bone and of living human subjects using high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (Koizuka et al. 1990, 1991, 1992). We have successfully depicted Reissrier’s membrane of the basal turn of the cochlea in the living. In this paper, we introduce the fine MRI picture of the cochlea obtained from living human subjects.
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Koizuka, I., Seo, R., Kato, I., Seo, Y., Minralcalni, M., Kubo, T. (1996). High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging of the fine structure of the human cochlea. In: Ernst, A., Marchbanks, R., Samii, M. (eds) Intracranial and Intralabyrinthine Fluids. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80163-1_17
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