Our laboratory houses one of the largest collection of human temporal bones worldwide, comprising a total of ~2,300 temporal bones (as in 19-09-2023).
Our collection by disease:
Disease | Number of temporal bones |
AIDS/HIV | 6 |
Alport Syndrome | 1 |
Anemia | 26 |
Anotia | 4 |
Cancer (non-systemic) | 510 |
Cancer (systemic) | 278 |
Carbon monoxide poisoning | 12 |
Cardiac arrest | 148 |
CHARGE syndrome | 4 |
Cholesteatoma | 30 |
Cholesterol clefts | 16 |
Cholesterol granuloma | 24 |
Cochlear implants | 6 |
Congenital hearing loss | 18 |
Congenital heart disease | 90 |
Cystic fibrosis | 34 |
Diabetes | 150 |
Ectopic brain tissue in the temporal bone | 1 |
Erythroblastosis fetalis | 4 |
Fabry's disease | 4 |
Temporal bone fracture | 13 |
Genetic hearing loss | 16 |
Glomus tumor | 1 |
Gun shot | 6 |
Hematogenic labyrinthitis | 2 |
Histiocytosis X | 2 |
Hurler's syndrome (MPS-1) | 12 |
Endolymphatic hydrops | 49 |
Klippel-feil syndrome | 4 |
Labyrinthitis ossificans | 30 |
Syphilis | 19 |
Malignant melanoma | 22 |
Meniere's (probable and confirmed) | 57 |
Meningioma | 5 |
Meningitis | 84 |
Microtia | 6 |
Mondini's dysplasia | 28 |
Multiple myeloma | 18 |
Osteogenesis imperfecta | 2 |
Otitis media | 335 |
Otogenic labyrinthitis | 4 |
Primary otologic tumors | 4 |
Secondary otologic tumors | 63 |
Otomycosis | 10 |
Otosclerosis | 192 |
Pena-Shokeir Syndrome | 2 |
Persistent stapedial artery | 8 |
Potter's syndrome | 12 |
Polyarteritis nodosa | 4 |
Vestibular Schwannoma / Acoustic tumors | 14 |