Pathology and Audiology of MiddleEar Lesions

Authors: H G KOBRAK

Publish Date: 1956/02/01

Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 177-182

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Abstract

Ten years have passed since the end of World War II ten years since the first largescale clinical utilization of penicillin Fundamental changes in otolaryngology occurred in this decade changes which seemed menacing to the very existence of otology and which therefore lead some otological Cassandras to speak of the dying profession More recently the prophets of doom have fewer and fewer followers On the contrary a more optimistic outlook seems to prevail Increasing interest in and enhanced therapeutic activity against hearing losses due to conductiontype defects have become evident New surgical methods are being developed and new diagnostic criteria are being designed for the purpose of properly selecting and assaying the tympanic pathology

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