Two Cases of Disturbance of Pigmentation with hearing Loss
1960 Volume 6 Issue 2 Pages 92-96
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1960 Volume 6 Issue 2 Pages 92-96
The authors reported here 2 cases of disturbance of pigmentation with hearing loss. Dermatologically one was diagnosed as xeroderma pigmentosum and the other as leucopathia congenita. They observed total deafness in the former, and severe loss of hearing in the right ear and delay in the recovery after the load of loud tones in the latter. Each case was examined enzymologically and the relation between metabolism of pigmemt and mechanism of hearing was investigated from process of the formation of melanin.
