This fully updated third edition offers a comprehensive text that provides the reader with clinical perspectives and both medical and surgical treatment strategies for problems of the ear seen in clinical practice, as well as the newest trends and developments in evaluation and management. Includes the most dynamic areas of otology and neurotology such as molecular biology (methodology and clinical disorders), hearing reconstruction techniques, and implantable hearing devices.This book is still the only text that covers both medical and surgical management, and rehabilitation of the full breadth of otology and neurotology. This third edition builds on the excellent reputation of the previous two editions, with extremely qualified and prestigious editors and contributors.