迷路及び錐体腐骨症例

　緒言

　最近の抗生剤を中心とする化学療法の進歩と，手術手技の改良に伴い，忘れられた疾患として文献上からさえ消え先せんとする多くの症例が各科の分野に認められる。

　迷路腐骨に就ても戦前田中氏の26例目を最後として約10年間報告に接しなかつた。

Kachi reports a case of temporal bone infection that resulted in a complete seques-tration of the petrous pyramid including the semicircular canals and a portion of the vestibule-the entitety of which was removed en toto at the time of the operation. A woman aged 23 affected with congenital syphilis susfered chronic otitis media for the period of 10 years which resulted in post-auricular fistula formation. Other signs of the disease were manifested by interstitial keratitis with marked decrease of vision, a complete facial paralysis and pharyngeal abcess, general malaise and severe headache. The patient was operated upon because of advanced temporal bone infections on both side of the head.