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[Diagnostic criteria of occupational hearing damage according to current regulations].

Problems connected with the hearing damage occur also among soldiers during military service. We discuss Polish current obligatory regulations describing types, and permissible noise values in labour environment together with requirements for performing measurements, and compare them with such regulations in other countries. We consider general principles for hearing protection currently in force in the army, and practical problems connected with them.

Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced↗

[Post-traumatic deafness in the materials of the ENT department CCH MMA in 1989-1994].

In the period of 1989-1994 in our ENT Department 22 patients with injury deafness were treated. In 8 patients the cause of the deafness was acoustic trauma and in 14 patients mechanical injury. In 6 patients we recognized temporal bone fracture. The authors compared their results with results of other authors published in period of 1963-1968. There was statistically significant increase in the quantity of mechanical injury deafness.

Adolescent↗

[A rare case of injury of the external auditory meatus].

The authors present difficulties in the diagnosis and the treatment of rare case of external ear injury. 41-year-old woman with acute inflammation of external ear was observed in our Department. The cause of this inflammation was a foreign body which obliterated the external auditory meatus.

Adult↗

[A case of hemorrhagic inflammation of an external acoustic duct].

We report a case a twenty-year-old male with purpura of his limbs, and acute, diffused inflammation of the skin of the external acoustic duct. Complaints occur in the course of upper respiratory tract infection treated with antibiotic. Administered treatment resulted in quick subsidence of general symptoms with prolonged healing of external acoustic duct requiring surgical debridement (incision, and evaluation of bloody contents).

Adult↗