Oto-Endoscopy in Small Animal Medicine and Surgery

1. Introduction (including historical overview)
Outlines prevalence of ear disease in animal practice and the history of visualization and endoscopy of the ear in human ear practice

PART A - BACKGROUND

2. Equipment and set-up
Details the equipment required for basic and advanced otoscopy

3. Clinical anatomy
Details clinically relevant gross and endoscopic anatomy of the outer and middle ear, for trans-canal and trans-bulla endoscopy. Includes important anatomical structures at risk during surgery.

4. Patient assessment
Includes clinical history, clinical examination, testing hearing (3000 words, 15 images)

5. Imaging of the ear
Principles and practice of radiological imaging, examples of normal and abnormal imaging (2500 words, 4-5 line drawings, 40 images)

PART B – ATLAS OF ENDOSCOPIC PATHOLOGY

6. Disease of the outer ear in dogs
Includes disease such as otitis externa, mites, tumours, foreign bodies – diagnosis and treatment (2000 words, 40 images)

7. Disease of the middle ear in dogs
Includes glue ear, tympanic retraction. Cholesteatoma, middle ear polyps and tumours – diagnosis and treatment. (2000 words, 40 images)

8. Disease of the ear in cats
Includes polyps, chronic otitis media

9. Disease of the ear in other small companion animals
Rabbits, etc

PART C – ENDOSCOPICALLY ASSISTED SURGERY

10. Transcanal endoscopic ear surgery
Removal of foreign bodies, debulking of cholesteatoma

11. Endoscopically assisted bulla surgery
Includes endoscopic and image-guidance assisted lateral and ventral bulla osteotomy