recurrent bacterial meningitis in a child with hearing impairment, mondini dysplasia: a case report
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recurrent bacterial meningitis is not a common disease and makes physicians seek underlying predisposing factors which can result from anatomic anomalies or immunodeficiency. in this paper we present a boy with recurrent bacterial meningitis with the history of trauma and sensorineural hearing loss. mondini dysplasia was demonstrated with computed homographic scans (ct-scan) of temporal bones.
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Recurrent bacterial meningitis in a child with hearing impairment, mondini dysplasia: a case report.
Recurrent bacterial meningitis is not a common disease and makes physicians seek underlying predisposing factors which can result from anatomic anomalies or immunodeficiency. In this paper we present a boy with recurrent bacterial meningitis with the history of trauma and sensorineural hearing loss. Mondini dysplasia was demonstrated with computed homographic scans (CT-Scan) of temporal bones.
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acta medica iranicaجلد ۵۰، شماره ۱۲، صفحات ۸۴۳-۸۴۵
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