The main treatment for cancer that starts in the ear canal, middle and inner ear or the bone is surgery and radiotherapy. Radiotherapy is often given after surgery. Some people may have it instead of ...

In adults, hearing loss can be due to natural aging, earwax buildup, an ear infection, or more serious causes such as a stroke or brain tumor. One of the most common causes of hearing loss in kids is ...

Most of these cancers start in the skin of the outer ear. Cancers that develop inside the ear, known as the middle and inner ear, are rare. The outer ear is the part of the ear we can see. It protects ...

Your inner ear converts sound vibrations on the eardrum into electrical signals, which are carried to the brain via the auditory nerve. Your brain then decodes these signals into the sounds you ...

The vestibular system is a network of organs in the inner ears that detects the motions ... unilateral vestibular hypofunction (affecting one ear). Participants wore a virtual reality headset ...

The central tendon is a large part of the diaphragm that anchors the diaphragm to the ribs. A healthy person can have some minor variations in the diaphragm's anatomy. For example, the left or right ...

Department of Otolaryngology, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States Department of Neurological Surgery, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, ...

The classical proof of MD was an endolymphatic hydrops (EH). However, a few intravenous gadolinium-enhanced MRI studies of the inner ear (iMRI) also revealed an EH in VM. The major questions were the ...

The presence of large and morphologically adult inner ears in juvenile material suggests precociality. Our findings add to the diversity of neurovascular anatomy in sauropod braincases and buttress ...

The transcription factor ATOH1 is a key regulator of hair cell development and regeneration in the inner ear. Following the death of hair cells, supporting cells upregulate ATOH1 and give rise to new ...

Genomics studies face specific challenges in the inner ear due to the multiple types and limited amounts of inner ear cells that are arranged in a very delicate structure. However, advances in ...