Patients with diffuse obliterative otosclerosis have more extensive footplate pathology than annular cases. As a result of this more skill is required for diffuse otosclerosis cases, and postoperative hearing results are usually worse than annular cases. In this retrospective study we compared the preoperative audiological features of annular and diffuse...
Hearing Loss in Biotinidase Deficiency: Genotype-Phenotype Correlation
Children with symptoms of profound biotinidase deficiency with null mutations are more likely to have hearing loss develop than those with missense mutations, even if not treated for a period of time. Hearing loss appears to be preventable in children with null mutations if treatment is initiated soon after birth.
Bony sheathed chorda tympani: A unique case of incudomalleolar fixation
To describe a unilateral conductive hearing loss caused by restriction of the movements of malleus and incus due to chorda tympani in a bony sheath. A 23-year-old man with a stable mild conductive hearing loss in the left ear and mild sensorineural hearing loss in the right ear. An exploratory...