This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

HARRY LEICHENGER, M.D.; SOL M. ABELSON, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1937;26(3):306-309.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Deafness resulting from meningococcic meningitis is a well recognized complication. Neal's¹ series of 650 cases contained 26 instances of deafness, Cook, Lyon and Mitchell² reported deafness in 3 of a series of 87 cases. McLean and Caffey³ reported deafness in 4 of 44 cases. Eleven cases of deafness were noted in 144 instances of epidemic meningitis by Smithburn, Kempf, Zerfas and Gilman.⁴ It is usually stated that the deafness has little tendency to improve and that it is due to a lesion of the auditory nerve.

Oppenheim⁵ stated that the lesion consists of purulent invasion of the eighth cranial nerve, with extension to or actual involvement of the cochlea and the meninges in the original assault by the meningococcus. Earlier writers⁶ (Moos, Steinbrugge and Schultze) found the eighth cranial nerve hyperemic and infiltrated with cells in the early stages and later bathed in pus. Steinbrugge observed a case in which . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Attending Staff Member, Cook County Contagious Disease Hospital and Associate in Pediatrics, University of Illinois College of Medicine.; Associate, Cook County Contagious Disease Hospital, and Assistant in Pediatrics, University of Illinois College of Medicine CHICAGO

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?