The Original Paper on the Mondini’s Anomaly of the Inner Ear and Three Dimensional Imaging

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  • Mondini内耳奇形の原著図譜と3次元画像診断
  • Mondini ナイジ キケイ ノ ゲンチョ ズフ ト 3ジゲン ガゾウ シンダン

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In 1791, Mondini wrote the Latin article entitled “Anatomica Surdi nati Sectio.” It became the first report of the dissection of the temporal bone in an eight-year-old boy with congenital deafness and reported the findings of the inner ear anomaly. Mondini’s original paper is a historical one for otological researchers, but it has been difficult, indeed rather impossible to read for a long time. We fortunately had the chance to review the original copy of the paper.<br>The summary of Mondini’s report described several conditions: there was a large opening of the vestibular aqueduct; labyrinth fluid was escaping from the enlarged vestibular aqueduct; and the cochlea consisted of only one and a half turns, among others. According to his paper, the common cavity is not an inner ear anomaly of the Mondini type. Currently, recent progress in three-dimensional imaging can detect and visualize the fine and detailed structure of the inner ear. Therefore, imaging diagnosis is able to discriminate Mondini anomalies from other types.

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