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Article: Oval window fistula.(OTOSCOPIC CLINIC)(Brief article)
- Article from:
- Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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A 56-year-old woman came to the office complaining of disequilibrium and purulent drainage from her right ear. Five years earlier, she had undergone a right canal-wall-down mastoidectomy with a meatoplasty, and she was fitted for a hearing aid within 4 months of surgery. At that time, however, she began to experience disequilibrium, and she soon stopped wearing her hearing aid. She had become completely deaf in her left ear following completion of a canal-wall-down mastoidectomy 30 years earlier.
Otoscopic examination of the left ear revealed a well-healed and dry mastoidectomy cavity. Inspection of the fight ear revealed a mucosalized cavity with mucoid ...