Authors: Dilek Yılmaz Çiftdoğan Nuri Bayram Yasemin Özdemir Selen Bayraktaroğlu Fadıl Vardar
Publish Date: 2009/03/04
Volume: 168, Issue: 12, Pages: 1533-
Abstract
Mondinis dysplasia is a developmental anomaly of the middle ear characterized by cochlear malformation with dilation of the vestibular aquaduct vestibule and ampullar ends of the semicircular canals These deformities may result in a connection between subarachnoid space and the middle ear resulting in recurrent episodes of meningitis Additionally it is commonly associated with hearing impairment We describe here a boy with recurrent meningitis and unilateral sensorineural hearing loss Mondini dysplasia was demonstrated with computed tomographic scans of the temporal bones in the search for pathogenesis of recurrent meningitis
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