TY - JOUR
KW - Adult
KW - Audiometry, Pure-Tone
KW - Female
KW - Hearing Disorders
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Vestibulocochlear Nerve
KW - Vestibulocochlear Nerve Diseases
AU - Mann S B
AU - Kumar B
AU - Yande R
AU - Kaur S
AU - Kaur I
AU - Mehra Y N
AB - <p>25 cases of bacillary positive leprosy patients and 25 age and sex matched controls were investigated for assessment of cochleo-vestibular status. Impaired hearing was complained of by 4 patients. None had tinnitus, dizziness or vertigo. On testing 44% patients were found to have unilateral or bilateral perceptive deafness. Specialised tests of hearing indicated that the deafness was of cochlear type. The vestibular functions were not affected. Leprosy seems to selectively involve the cochlea.</p>
BT - Indian journal of leprosy
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3611857?dopt=Abstract
CN - Infolep Library - available
DA - 1987 Jan-Mar
IS - 1
J2 - Indian J Lepr
LA - eng
N2 - <p>25 cases of bacillary positive leprosy patients and 25 age and sex matched controls were investigated for assessment of cochleo-vestibular status. Impaired hearing was complained of by 4 patients. None had tinnitus, dizziness or vertigo. On testing 44% patients were found to have unilateral or bilateral perceptive deafness. Specialised tests of hearing indicated that the deafness was of cochlear type. The vestibular functions were not affected. Leprosy seems to selectively involve the cochlea.</p>
PY - 1987
SP - 20
EP - 5
T2 - Indian journal of leprosy
TI - Eighth nerve evaluation in leprosy.
VL - 59
SN - 0254-9395
ER -