Cystic cochleovestibular anomaly presenting with congenital deafness and recurrent bacterial meningitis in childhood
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Deafness after bacterial meningitis.
Seventeen children with previous bacterial meningitis and 17 sib controls were examined clinically and otoscopically. They were also tested with air-conduction and bone-conduction audiometry and evaluated by tympanometry. There were no major neurological abnormalities and few otoscopical signs of ear disease. 21% of the ears showed abnormalities on air-conduction audiometry but all were normal ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0972-2327
DOI: 10.4103/0972-2327.112496