Spontaneous labyrinthine window rupture.
Spontaneous labyrinthine window rupture has been increasingly recognized in recent years. Seven such case histories and details of subsequent management by tympanotomy and fat graft plugging of the fistulae are reported. The importance of a history of physical stress preceding onset of symptoms is emphasized in the case of certain patients who presented with sudden hearing loss accompanied, in some cases, by tinnitus or vertigo. The first 5 patients were reported in a paper presented in October 1977 at the First South African National Otorhinological Congress in Cape Town.
D000328:Adult; D003051:Cochlea / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010046:Oval Window, Ear / Q000601:surgery; D012405:Round Window, Ear / Q000601:surgery*; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous