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The authors present the audiometric procedure for hearing impaired children, which has been developed and performed routinely for some years by the Department of Audiology in the ENT-Clinic of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. Problems of children's audiometry are discussed. The procedure developed, is based on the children's conscious orientation to the source of sound which can regularly be registered especially in children of the age from 5 or 6 months to 3 or 4 years. The threshold provoking orientation is 45 to 50 dB (absolute). The results gained by the method described are compaired with those which were obtained 4 to 9 years later in 41 subjects suffering from heredodegenerative hearing loss. A coefficient of correlation r = 0.77 was found, indication a very near correlation of results for both procedures. When compaired to ERA, the test presented is simple to perform and is though to be very valuable for praxis. The orientation audiometry is more exact than the test of subjective audiometry and various procedures based on acoustical reflexes, too.
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PMID:[The reliability of audiometry based on conscious orientation of the hearing impaired child (author's transl)]. 14 27

The relation between cleft palate and middle ear disturbances is well known. Often the ENT specialist will see the patient only after the middle ear has been damaged so that it cannot be corrected any more satisfactorily. Therefore early otological diagnosis (including audiometry, impedance measurement, ERA, microscopic examination of the ear drum and essential myringotomy) and early treatment should be performed in the general plan of treatment in cleft patients.
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PMID:[Middle ear problems associated with cleft palate (author's transl)]. 39 Mar 69

A patient, suffering from otosclerosis of the right ear, was stapedectomized in 1977. Due to bleeding into the oval window during surgery, a persistent deficit of inner ear performance occurred, causing vertigo and hearing loss of high frequencies, in the right ear. As vertigo increased over the years, the patient underwent extensive otological and neurological examinations without result. Because of anamnestic data all interest was focussed on the right ear, and even gas cisternography was performed on the right side only. Due to a left-side sudden hearing loss, the patient came to the Freiburg ENT Hospital in 1981. ERA examinations and, finally, gas cisternography revealed a tumour--meanwhile confirmed by surgery (acoustic neurinoma)--of the left cerebello-pontine angle. As a consequence of this it must be pointed out that in all cases of unilateral or bilateral loss of hearing of the inner ear and vertigo of unclear etiology, ERA investigations and bilateral gas cisternography should be performed.
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PMID:[Differential diagnostic problems in cerebellopontile angle tumors? A case report]. 660 47