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Audio-vestibular study in leprosy

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Audio-vestibular evaluation was carried out in 50 leprosy patients consisting of 30 lepromatous and 20 tuberculoid cases. No abnormality was observed in the tuberculoid patients. Impaired hearing was detected in half of the lepromatous patients and vestibular hypofunction was observed in a small number of cases. The Conductive deafness was due to eustachian tube catarrh and otitis media, secondary to lepromatous involvement of the nose. The Sensori-neural deafness and vestibular hypofunction were possibly due to an end organ lesion and involvement of the vestibulocochlear nerve was considered to be unlikely.

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  1. MLN Medical College, Allahabad, U.P.

    S. R. Singh, R. K. Singh & A. K. Bajaj

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Paper read at thirty third Annual Conference of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India, Patna, January 1 981.

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Singh, S.R., Singh, R.K. & Bajaj, A.K. Audio-vestibular study in leprosy. Indian J Otolaryngol 33, 131–134 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02992282

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