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Recurrent meningitis in children is not only a potentially life threatening condition, but often involves the child in the trauma of repeated hospital admissions and multiple and invasive investigations to try and find an underlying cause. Symptoms and signs of CSF rhinorrhoea or otorrhoea are infrequent in these patients. Unilateral deafness may be difficult to diagnose in the young child. Full ENT examination may be normal. We report seven cases of children with recurrent meningitis in whom inner ear abnormalities were only indicated as the site of entry of infection by hypocycloidal tomography or high resolution CT scanning of the temporal bone. Subsequent tympanotomy confirmed the site of the CSF leak as the oval window in the majority of cases; packing the vestibule with muscle halted further attacks in these patients.
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PMID:Recurrent meningitis in children due to inner ear abnormalities. 275 16

Emergencies are frequent in the everyday ENT outpatient clinic. From a great variety of emergencies only the most frequent ones were outlined, such as epistaxis, acute unilateral deafness, injuries of the tympanic membrane, foreign bodies events and acute external otitis. The clinics, etiology and therapy are discussed in order to help the general practitioner to cope with emergencies in the ENT field.
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PMID:[Emergencies in ORL practice]. 772 78

Of 20 males and 2 females aged 18-40 wounded in the ear region and admitted to ENT hospitals, 68% had fragmentation effects, 32% gun wounds, 83% combined injuries. Damage to the temporal bone took place in 66.5%. Foreign body (bullet or fragment) was present in half of the cases. Facial paralysis, unilateral deafness have developed in 40% and 2/3 of the victims, respectively. Advanced otiatric and neurological methods warranted removal of the foreign bodies in all the cases, filling of temporal bone defects with island neurovascular flap from the musculus nutans and musculus temporalis. Lethal outcome due to meningoencephalitis occurred in one case only.
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PMID:[Treatment of gunshot wounds of the ear]. 855 16