Dr. Corrales specializes in Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery. His focus is seeing patients with hearing loss, chronic ear problems including drainage, cholesteatoma, cochlear implants, otosclerosis and tumors of the skull base. His practice is part of a Comprehensive Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Skull Base Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
SURGERIES MOST FREQUENTLY PERFORMED
- Cochlear implantation
- Procedures to treat a perforated eardrum, ear drainage, or cholesteatoma
- Procedures to treat conductive hearing loss for otosclerosis or other causes
- Tumors of the cranial base, such as vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma), meningioma, or malignant tumors
SCOPE OF PRACTICE
- Congenital aural atresia
- Ear canal exostoses or stenosis
- Complex tympanic membrane perforation
- Cholesteatoma and chronic otitis media
- Conductive hearing loss due to middle ear bone problems
- Otosclerosis
- Complications of otitis media (coalescent mastoiditis, intracranial abscess, temporal lobe encephalocele, etc.)
- Sensorineural hearing loss (mild, moderate, severe or profound)
- Skull base tumors (paraganglioma, chordoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, endolymphatic sac tumors, etc.)
- Vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma), including patients with neurofibromatosis
- Meningioma
- Glomus tympanicum and jugulare tumors
- Superior semicircular canal dehiscence
- Temporal bone trauma
- Facial nerve palsy