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Diagnostic Significance

Abraham Eviatar, MD; Victor Goodhill, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1968;87(4):373-375.

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UNILATERAL external auditory canal hypesthesia has been observed by us from time to time in examining patients with a variety of otologic conditions. Hitselberger and House¹ drew attention to this phenomenon as a possible diagnostic sign in acoustic neurinoma when they reported hypesthesia on the involved side in 25 operated neurinoma cases. They attributed this unilateral hypesthesia to the external auditory canal distribution of a small cutaneous sensory branch of the facial nerve. The hypesthesia was considered to be an expression of a pressure phenomenon on the seventh nerve by the tumor while still confined to the internal auditory meatus. Although the authors did point out the occurrence of many "false positive tests," they nevertheless stated that "external canal hypesthesia may be an early sign of acoustic tumor."

Based on our own more sporadic observations of this phenomenon, it seemed advisable to undertake a study of the occurrence of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Los Angeles

From the Department of Surgery, Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Otology Section, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Nov 21, 1967.

Reprint requests to 32-41 Rehabilitation Center, UCLA Medical School, Los Angeles 90024 (Dr. Goodhill).

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