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Clinical Criteria

Robert I. Kohut, MD

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1992;118(7):687-692.

Abstract
• A perilymph fistula may be defined as an abnormal opening between the inner ear and the external surface of the labyrinth capsule, which allows the escape of perilymph and causes specific disorders of hearing, balance, or both. Its diagnosis remains somewhat controversial. This communication presents a defined set of clinical diagnostic criteria, the historic context by which those criteria have been developed, the histopathologic and clinical studies by which they have been challenged or substantiated, and the deficiences that remain in our understanding of the pathogenic mechanisms that allow for abnormal cochlear or vestibular function.

(Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1992;118:687-692)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Otolaryngology, The Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication March 30, 1992.

Reprint requests to Department of Otolaryngology, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157 (Dr Kohut).

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