当院における先天性外耳道奇形について

両外耳道閉鎖症の言語療法を中心に

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Twenty patients including five children with bilateral anomaly of the external auditory meatus and fifteen with unilateral anomaly consulted our hospital during the last eleven years.
Three of 5 children with bilateral anomaly could not be diagnosed at an earlier stage since they did not have either malformation of the auricle or craniofacial deformities.
We reported, here, specific time courses of speech and language development observed in the four children in the process of treatment.
In particular a case was found to have mental retardation and speech impairment like the children with moderate hearing loss who could not be diagnosed at an earlier stage.