Abstract
A prospective neuro-otological study concerning 30 cases of fibrositis syndrome (psychogenic rheumatism, PR) and 30 age-matched normal controls was made and a retrospective study concerning 33 cases of Meniere's disease (MD) diagnosed and followed-up, examined between 1965 and 1982. Results showed: sensorineural hearing loss at low frequencies in all early stages of MD and in 10/30 of PR; hyperacusis (pain threshold below 100 dBHL bilaterally for all frequencies) without other sign of recruitment in 73.3% of PR and in 3/4 cases of MD where it was measured (discomfort or vertigo due to noise was noted retrospectively in 16/33 of early stages of MD); hyperreactivity of per-rotatory nystagmus in 53.3% of PR without neurological or peripheral vestibular lesions and, with or without vestibular unilateral lesions, in 39.9% of MD. None of the controls showed hyperacusis, hyperreactivity of per-rotatory nystagmus or deafness at low frequencies.
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MedicineHyperacusisVertigoPsychogenic diseaseMeniere's diseaseAudiologyVestibular systemTinnitusNystagmusSurgeryRadiology
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- 1983
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- 96
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- sup406
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- 67-71
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A Hadj-Djilani,
J C Gerster
(1983).
Meniere's Disease and Fibrositis Syndrome (Psychogenic Rheumatism): Relationship in Audiometric and Nystagmographic Results.
Acta Oto-Laryngologica
, 96
(sup406)
, 67-71.
https://doi.org/10.3109/00016488309123006
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- 10.3109/00016488309123006