Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat
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Acute Labyrinthitis following Mastoid Operation.?A variety of acute labyrinthitis not due to surgical traumatism is liable to arise after the radical mastoid operation, as in those grouped by Alexander under the term labyrinthitis acuta circumscripta. In the four instances reported by this observer the symptoms of labyrinthitis appeared within twenty-four hours after operation, viz. marked vertigo with vomiting and sometimes subjective movements of external objects, spontaneous nystagmus generally to the sound side, the patient lying on the sound side. After the rather violent onset, all the symptoms gradually subsided without any further operative interference, and at the end of a week the patients were perfectly well and able to get about. In two of the cases meningeal symptoms accompanied the labyrinthitis, but they disappeared even more rapidly than the labyrinthine symptoms. The author concludes that these manifestations were due to a transient serous labyrinthitis, and in all his four cases the recovery of the labyrinthine functions
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