The clinical assessment of industrial and hearing loss - a case report and discussion.
The clinical evaluation of a patient with occupational hearing loss may be difficult because of the variety of potential pathogenic mechanisms in the cochlea. A patient is described illustrating some of these factors, in which exposure to noise, head injury, ototoxic drug ingestion, childhood ear disease, otosclerosis, and presbycusis compounded to create a clinical conundrum.
D000368:Aged; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications; D004096:Dihydrostreptomycin Sulfate / Q000009:adverse effects; D004427:Ear Diseases / Q000150:complications; D006317:Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D010040:Otosclerosis / Q000150:complications; D011304:Presbycusis / Q000150:complications
D004096:Dihydrostreptomycin Sulfate