Non-surgical treatment of superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome

Superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome is caused by a small defect in the bone overlying the superior semicircular canal of the inner ear. This acquired ”third window” in the inner ear may cause sound hypersensitivity as well as pressure- and sound-induced vertigo.

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Published: Report no: ut202218 Registration no: SBU 2022/314

Question

What scientific studies or systematic reviews are there on non-surgical treatment of superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome?

Identified literature

No relevant studies or systematic reviews were identified.

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Medline via OvidSP 23 August 2022

Title: Semicircular Canal Dehiscence Syndrome

/ = Term from the MeSH controlled vocabulary; .sh = Term from the MeSH controlled vocabulary; exp = Term from MeSH including terms found below this term in the MeSH hierarchy; .ti,ab = Title or abstract; .tw = Title or abstract; .kf = Keywords; .kw = Keywords, exact; .bt = Book title. NLM Bookshelf; .pt = Publication type; .ja = Journal abbreviation; .af = All fields; adjn = Adjacent. Proximity operator retrieving adjacent words, adj3 retrieves records with search terms within two terms from each other.; * or $ = Truncation; “ “ = Citation Marks; searches for an exact phrase
Search terms Items found
Population:
1. exp Semicircular Canal Dehiscence/ 68
2. ((Lateral or Posterior or Superior or semicircular) adj canal adj4 Dehiscence*).tw,kw,bt. 724
3. or/1-2 [population] 727
Intervention:
4. (psycho* or behavio* or cognitive or cbt or treat* or therap* or intervent* or physiotherap* or counsel* or habit* or rehab* or manag* or care).tw,kw,bt. 11 715 741
5. exp Psychotherapy/ 213 469
6. exp Rehabilitation/ 342 542
7. Conservative Treatment/ 4 692
8. or/4-7 [treatment] 11 857 915
Study types: systematic reviews and meta-analysis
9. Systematic Review.pt. or Meta-Analysis.pt. or Cochrane Database Syst Rev.ja. or ((systematic adj3 review) OR "meta analys*" OR metaanalys*).ti,ab. 403 340
Combined sets:
10. 3 and 8 [population and treatment] 300
11. 3 and 9 [population and systematic review] 18
Final result:
12. 10 300
13. 11 18

Scopus via scopus.com 23 Aug 2022

Title: Semicircular Canal Dehiscence Syndrome

TITLE-ABS-KEY = Title, abstract or keywords (including indexed keywords and author keywords); ALL = All fields; W/n = Within. Proximity operator retrieving terms within n words from each other; PRE/n = Precedes by. Proximity operator, the first term in the search must precede the second by n words; LIMIT-TO (X) = Includes only results of specified type, e.g., publication type or time range.; DOCTYPE& = Publication type; “re” = review; “le” = letter; “ed” = editorial; “ch” = book chapter; “cp” = conference proceedings; * = Truncation; “ “ = Citation Marks; searches for an exact phrase
Search terms Items found
Population:
1. TITLE-ABS-KEY ((lateral OR posterior OR superior OR semicircular) W/5 canal W/5 dehiscence) 949
Intervention:
2. TITLE-ABS-KEY ( psych* OR behavio* OR cognitive OR cbt OR treat* OR therap* OR intervent* OR physiotherap* OR counsel* OR habit* OR rehab* OR manage* OR care ) 26 686 632
Study types: systematic reviews and meta-analysis
3. TITLE-ABS-KEY ( ( systematic W/2 review ) OR "meta analy*" OR metaanaly* ) AND (EXCLUDE (DOCTYPE, “le”) OR EXCLUDE (DOCTYPE, “ed”) OR EXCLUDE (DOCTYPE, “ch”) OR EXCLUDE (DOCTYPE, “cp”))  
Combined sets:
4. 1 AND 2 [population AND intervention] 454
5. 1 AND 3 [population AND systematic reviews] 25
Final result
6. 4 454
7. 5 25
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