Diagnosis Centers

Neurotology is a subspecialty of Otolaryngology. It concentrates on diseases of balance and hearing organs, skull bone around the ear as well as head and neck diseases involving skull base and related structures.

Başkent University School of Medicine Neurootology Clinic aims to accurately determine the diagnosis for all types of balance and hearing problems using the advanced diagnostic tests and methods. Our clinic involves a neurotology laboratory equipped with the modern tools necessary to make a complete, detailed analysis and establish the correct diagnosis.

Diseases of hearing and balance may present with imbalance, dizziness, hearing loss, hum/tinnitus, facial asymmetry and other additional complaints. 

Diseases concerned include:

• Vertigo and diseases causing imbalance,
  • Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)
  • Phobic postural vertigo (PPV)
  • Central vestibular vertigo
  • Vestibular migraine
  • Vestibular neuritis
  • Menière's Disease, endolymphatic hydrops
  • Bilateral vestibulopathy
  • Psychogenic vertigo
  • Vestibular paroxysm
  • Perilymphatic fistula
  • Tumors
  • Idiopathic vertigo and other causes of vertigo
• Hearing disorders
  • Hearing loss
  • Tinnitus
  • Other hearing disorders
• Tumors
  • Acoustic neuroma / vestibular schwannoma
  • Tumors that affect the ear and the surrounding structures
  • Tumors that affect the hearing/balance/facial nerves
• Facial nerve diseases
  • Facial nerve strokes and other conditions affecting the facial nerve
• Diseases related to the skull base