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Behrad Elmiyeh, MRCS; Iain S. Whitaker, MA, MB; Vyas Prasad, MRCS; Ricardo Persaud, MRCS; Timothy Beale, FRCR; Deirdre Lucas, FRCP
Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, London, England

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2005;131:921.

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A 15-year-old girl presented with a long history of runny nose and nasal obstruction. She also had a near-total hearing loss in the left ear and a moderate mixed hearing loss in the right ear. Other findings included a triangle-shaped right ear, coloboma, physical and developmental delay, absence of the ovaries, and epilepsy.

Axial computed tomography of the temporal bones (Figure 1) demonstrated bilateral absence of the semicircular canals. Figure 2 and Figure 3 show coronal computed tomographic scans of the left temporal bone in the present case (Figure 2) and in a case with no abnormalities (Figure 3). The black arrows in Figure 3 point to the normal superior and lateral semicircular canals. The arrowheads in Figures 2 and 3 indicate the position . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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