A New Phenomenon in the Physiology of Hearing in Otosclerosis Surgery: Normal Hearing and Closure of Air-Bone Gap Without a Functional Ossicular Chain
- 1 January 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery
- Vol. 71 (1) , 64-79
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archotol.1960.03770010068007
Abstract
EDITORIAL COMMENT The Editorial Board of the Archives adheres to the policy of accepting for publication selected articles of scientific merit even when they present techniques or opinions at variance with currently accepted methods and views. The implications of the article by Drs. Samuel Rosen and Moe Bergman—namely, that normal hearing can result in an ear with complete interruption of the ossicular chain without communicated mobility between the tympanic membrane and the stapes footplate, are so contrary to clinical and experimental observations previously published as to call for comment. The six per cent of cases of fenestration of the footplate with near-normal hearing, that is, within 10 db. of 0, might conceivably have been accompanied by an undetected mobilization of the portion of footplate in contact with one or both crura or subsequently adhesions might conceivably have developed so as to reestablish continuity between the tympanic membrane and the mobileKeywords
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