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GEORGE E. SHAMBAUGH, M.D.; JACOB W. HOLDERMAN, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1926;4(2):127-136.

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The serious menace of chronic progressive deafness and the frequency with which otosclerosis, spongifying of the labyrinth capsule, appears to be the underlying pathologic cause has impressed us more and more as the study of these patients, extending over a period of years, has served to verify the correctness of an earlier, more or less tentative diagnosis. In order to gain some definite idea of the actual proportion of such cases, we undertook an examination of the records of 1,000 consecutive patients who had consulted us in 1924. In this list we found 362 who had come because of ear symptoms, and of this number there were 113 for whom we had felt that otosclerosis was the only logical diagnosis; approximately one out of every three who consulted us because of ear symptoms was found to be suffering from this condition.

In considering these somewhat surprising figures, it . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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CHICAGO

Footnotes
Read before American Otological Society at Montreal, June 4, 1926.

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