Department of Otolaryngology

Otology/Neurotology/Skull Base Surgery Service

This subspecialty service manages diseases and disorders of hearing, balance, cranial nerves, and the skull base. Drs. Gantz and Rubinstein specialize in the management of neurosensory or inner ear hearing loss (i.e., profound deafness acquired and congenital, sudden hearing loss, immune mediated hearing loss), chronic ear disease (i.e., chronic infected ears, cholesteatoma), conductive hearing loss (i.e., ossicular discontinuity, otosclerosis, tympanic membrane perforations, congenital anomalies), balance disorders (i.e., Ménière's disease, vertigo, etc.), facial nerve disorders (i.e., Bells palsy, traumatic injury, neuroma), and tumors of the cranial nerves (i.e., acoustic neuroma, other nerve tumors). Our center has had extensive experience with hearing preservation procedures for acoustic tumors.

A skull base team consisting of neurotologists, neurosurgeons, neurophthalmologists, and neuroradiologists manage large skull base disorders including neuromas, clivus chordomas, petroclival meningiomas, and cavernous sinus tumors.

Bruce J. Gantz, MD, Director