CASE
HISTORY / CLINIC:
Patient with instantaneous dizziness and subjective feeling of deafness in the
right ear after falling from bicycle. Lateralization to the left in weber's test,
Rinne's test can not be performed on the right, lateralization
to the left, Rinne's test is positive on the right. Normal findings of ear
microscopy .
FINDINGS:
A sharp transversal line runs across the right inner ear, medially
to the semicircular canals indicating a longitudinal
fracture.
DIAGNOSIS:
Transversal fracture
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS:
Vascular canals