An unusual case of stapes fixation.
A case of fixed columella stapes is described by a patient of 39 years with bilateral conductive hearing loss, a mitral valve pathology, bat ears, clinodactyly and hallux valgus. This complex of anomalies can be considered a hazardous association or an incomplete form of the Forney-Robinson-Pascoe syndrome. Stapedectomy with interposition of a vein graft and a teflon piston gave a total closure of the air-bone gap.
D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple; D000328:Adult; D004429:Ear Ossicles / Q000002:abnormalities*; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000209:etiology*; D006312:Hearing Loss, Bilateral / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010026:Osteosclerosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D013199:Stapes / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000196:embryology; D013201:Stapes Surgery; D013577:Syndrome