Otosclerosis

Otosclerosis is a disease of the bony labyrinth capsule with pathological accumulation of newly formed bone tissue in the oval window. Since the bone newly formed tissue can clamp the stirrup (stapes) or restrict its mobility, it comes in otosclerosis to a conductive hearing loss. If Otoskleroseherde – as in the form of a rare Innenohrotosklerose – located near the scala media, a sensorineural hearing loss is possible. In half…