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Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery > Volume 29(1); 1986 > Article
Korean Journal of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 1986;29(1): 50-4.
A Clinical Study of Temporal Bone Fracture after Head Trauma
Hae Sung Maeng, MD, Sang Ho Lee, MD, Sang Won Yeo, MD, Sang Min Yoon, MD, and Young Ro Lee, MD
Department of Otolaryngology, Catholic Medical College, Seoul, Korea
외상성 두부 손상으로 인한 측두골골절에 관한 임상적 고찰
맹해성 · 이상호 · 여상원 · 윤상민 · 이영로
가톨릭대학교 의과대학 이비인후과학교실
ABSTRACT

We studied 43 patients who had been hospitalized to Dept. of Otolaryngology and Neurosurgery, Catholic Medical College, after head injury from January, 1981 to December, 1984. We carried a thorough physical, radiologic and audiometric examinations. The results were as follows : 1) Of the 43 patients, 34 patients(79%) were men and 9 patients(21%) were women. 2) Most of them were injured in automobile accident and falling down accident. 3) Of temporal bone fractures (1) Longitudinal fractures were 32 cases(74%), (2) Transverse fractures were 9 cases(21%), (3) Mixed fractures were 2 cases(5%). 4) On otologic symptoms and findings. (1) Most common symptom was hearing impairment which was 35 cases(81%), ear bleeding in 26 cases(60%), tinnitus in 18 cases(42%), vertigo and dizziness in 7 cases(16%), and facial palsy in 3 cases(7%). (2) Audiologic study was performed for 35 patients of them, conductive hearing loss was 20 cases(57%), sensorineural hearing loss in 12 cases(34%), and mixed hearing loss in 3 cases(9%). 5) Follow-up symptoms and audiologic findings. (1) Follow-up of 21 cases of hearing loss, 13 cases were improved, 8 cases were no improved. (2) 7 cases of 18 tinnitus were spontaneously improved during 2 months, but remaining 11 cases were no improved. (3) 6 cases of 7 vertigo and dizziness were improved during 2 months. (4) In follow up 2 cases of facial palsy, all were improved.

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