Pinna Anomalies Associated With Congenital Conductive Hearing Loss

1 March 1976

journal article
research article
Published by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in Pediatrics

Vol. 57 (3) , 332-341
https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.57.3.332

Abstract

This paper compares the normal pinna with the abnormal congenitally malformed pinna. Then the abnormal pinna is related to case histories where a hearing loss was found due to a congenital malformation of the middle ear ossicles. Careful examination of the pinna, therefore, may be a simple diagnostic sign of an underlying potentially surgically correctable hearing loss. An abnormal pinna is more often associated with a middle ear anomaly than with any other congenital malformation including a urinary tract anomaly.

Keywords

PINNA

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JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, 1967