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Abstract
A fifty-four year old woman with Paget's disease of the skull had progressive deafness
and tinnitus for eight years prior to the diagnosis and operative removal of a large
acoustic neurinoma. This rare diagnostic challenge should be met with the knowledge
that osteitis deformans commonly produces bilateral sensorineural and conductive hearing
loss, causing no diminution of corneal reflex or asymmetry of facial expression. Acoustic
neurinoma produces unilateral deafness of only sensorineural type, but routinely involves
the fifth and seventh cranial nerves and causes an increase in cerebrospinal fluid
protein as the tumor expands intracranially.
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Received:
July 26,
1971
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© 1972 Published by Elsevier Inc.
