title: Recurrent meningitis due to congenital fistula of stapedial footplate.
abstract: A case of recurrent meningitis due to a stapes footplate fistula in a child with Klippel-Fiel syndrome is reported. The relationship of deafness to this latter syndrome is noted and theories for the aetiology of the fistula discussed. A stapedectomy was performed and the oval window was obliterated using a Schuknecht fat-wire prosthesis with further packing of the middle ear with muscle.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003638:Deafness / Q000150:complications; D004429:Ear Ossicles / Q000002:abnormalities*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007714:Klippel-Feil Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D008581:Meningitis / Q000209:etiology*; D012008:Recurrence; D013199:Stapes / Q000002:abnormalities*; D013201:Stapes Surgery