“…To avoid a poor result, vestibular nerve sectioning must be complete, on whatever approach: supratemporal, [4], retrolabyrinthine [5] or retrosigmoid [6]. Although neurotomy abolishes vertigo in 90% of cases [6,7], 10% of patients show residual instability despite unilateral vestibular areflexia [8,9], due to poor vestibular compensation. The present article reviewed studies of the mechanisms of vestibular compensation using various methods of analysis in MD patients who had undergone UVN.…”