At the Clinic surgical treatments of vertigo and deafness are routinely
carried out to correct the lesions and malfunctioning of the tympanum and of the
ossicles of the middle ear, and to eliminate the transmission of erroneous
signals of body position from the labyrinth to the brain. These operations
consist of highly advanced techniques of microsurgery, using microscopes and
diminutive instruments. The surgeon works in very limited space on reduced
dimensions, and on very fragile structures.
Treatments for deafness - tympanumplastics and stapediotomy - can be executed
under local anaesthesia, on a day-hospital or very short stay basis.
On the contrary, vertigo operations are carried out only under total anaesthesia.
Particularly interesting are cochlear implant operations for total deafness and
the operations in the internal and angle pontocerebellar auditory duct for
benign cancers (neuronomes) of the auditory nerve. Operations on the facial
nerve, to recuperate its functioning through grafts or anastomosis, are also of
particular note.