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Recovery From a Pre-Existing Long-Standing High-Tone Deafness on the Same Side

BAHIJ S. SALIBI, MD

Arch Neurol. 1963;9(3):313-318.

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Unlike most bullet wounds which are damaging, this one had a beneficial result. In this respect, as well as in its anatomical relations, the present case has rarely if ever been duplicated. The bullet had entered through the right nostril, penetrating the cranium through the right maxillary antrum and base of the right middle cranial fossa and was lodged over the fractured right foramen lacerum in direct contact with the gasserian ganglion, cavernous sinus, and precavernous portion of the internal carotid artery, without seriously injuring any of these structures. Its removal was followed by relief of a long-standing pre-existing hightone deafness on the same side.

Of the 7,662 cases of gunshot injuries of the skull and facial bones compiled by the Surgeon General of the US Army during the war of the Rebellion, 1861-1865,¹ none was identical with the present case. The report of the Surgeon General from World . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MARSHFIELD, WIS

Footnotes
Presented at the meeting of the Chicago Neurological Society, Jan 8, 1963, Chicago.

Neurosurgeon, Marshfield Clinic and Marshfield Clinic Foundation for Medical Research and Education; Clinical Instructor in Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison (Dr. Salibi).

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