caa a22 4500 38634843X CHVBK 20180307111819.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S002221510015666X doi S002221510015666X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S002221510015666X Recurrent meningitis in children due to inner ear abnormalities [Elektronische Daten] Recurrent meningitis in children is not only a potentially life threatening condition, but often involves the child in the trauma of repeated hospital admissions and multiple and invasive investigations to try and find an underlying cause. Symptoms and signs of CSF rhinorrhoea or otorrhoea are infrequent in these patients. Unilateral deafness may be difficult to diagnose in the young child. Full ENT examination may be normal. We report seven cases of children with recurrent meningitis in whom inner ear abnormalities were only indicated as the site of entry of infection by hypocycloidal tomography or high resolution CT scanning of the temporal bone. Subsequent tympanotomy confirmed the site of the CSF leak as the oval window in the majority of cases; packing the vestibule with muscle halted further attacks in these patients. Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1989 Quiney R. E. Senior Registrar Otolaryngology, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London. Mitchell D. B. Senior Registrar Otolaryngology, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London. Djazeri B. Senior House Officer, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London. Evans J. N. G. Consultant, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London. The Journal of Laryngology & Otology Cambridge University Press 103/5(1989-05), 473-480 0022-2151 103:5<473 1989 103 JLO https://doi.org/10.1017/S002221510015666X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S002221510015666X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Quiney R. E. Senior Registrar Otolaryngology, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mitchell D. B. Senior Registrar Otolaryngology, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Djazeri B. Senior House Officer, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Evans J. N. G. Consultant, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Laryngology & Otology Cambridge University Press 103/5(1989-05), 473-480 0022-2151 103:5<473 1989 103 JLO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge