Kutluhan, Ahmet Ankara Atatürk Education and Research Hospital - Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, Turkey , Salviz, Mehti Ankara Atatürk Education and Research Hospital - Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, Turkey , Çetin, Hüseyin Ankara Atatürk Education and Research Hospital - Department of Radiology, Turkey , Bilgen, Akif Sinan Ankara Atatürk Education and Research Hospital - Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, Turkey

Two unusual case of congenital conductive hearing loss related to anomaly of stapes

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Congenital abnormalities may occur in an isolated form of congenital ossicular or combined with external ear. Isolated ossicular anomalies are rarely seen in clinical practice only, a few reports include series of patients and vast majority of publications are consisted of case reports. Treatment of congenital ossicular anomalies depends on the condition of ossicular and oval window anomalies. In presented article two case reports with severe oval window anomalies and absence of suprastructure of stapes with mobile footplate were published. Management of these cases was discussed with the review of the literature.

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Congenital conductive hearing loss , congenital absence of the oval window , absence of the stapes.

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