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B. W. Armstrong, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1967;86(2):156-157.

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SUDDEN DEAFNESS is known to accompany certain diseases, and delayed sensorineural deafness after stapedectomy seems to be accepted as one of the hazards of the operation. Apparently no one has confidently assumed that a patient with delayed, severe sensorineural hearing loss after successful stapes surgery could have had it as a pure coincidence, unrelated to the operation. Experiences in 1963 among 200 consecutive stapedectomies should change our present concept.

In that series of 200 consecutive stapedectomies there were no sensorineural hearing losses, immediate or delayed, in the ears operated upon. It is highly significant, however, that there were three patients who developed sudden, severe sensorineural deafness in the unoperated ear. The stapedectomized ear was not involved in any of the patients.

Report of Cases

CASE 2.—A 55-year-old woman was found to have a combined loss of hearing in the right ear and a sensorineural loss in the left ear (Fig . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Charlotte, NC

From the Charlotte Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital, Charlotte, NC.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 20, 1966.

Reprint requests to 1600 E Third St, Charlotte, NC 28204 (Dr. Armstrong).

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