title: Bomb blast injury: effect on middle and inner ear.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the symptomatology, clinical findings and the effects of blast injury on middle and inner ear in survivors of bomb blast. Settings City of Mumbai, India.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study group consisted of 52 patients exposed to the bomb blast that occurred on 25th August 2003.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The distance of the victim from the blast site has no major infiuence in producing effects on middle and inner ear in our study of the surviving individuals. Rupture of the tympanic membrane occurs due to the positive wave but both everted and inverted edges can be found in multiple perforations of the tympanic membrane.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of ENT & Head Neck Surgery, Grant Medical College & Sir JJ Group of Hospitals, Byculla, Mumbai 400 008 India.
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Jagade
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Patil
authors.forename: I S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Suhail
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kelkar
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nemane
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mahendru
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kalbande
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kewle
keywords: Acoustic trauma; Bomb blast injury; Tympanic membrane rupture