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Twenty-two pairs of temporal bones collected through a collaborative program arranged between the Christian Medical College, Vellore, South India, and The Johns Hopkins University, were processed in the Temporal Bone Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University. They have been reviewed and are reported here. Otological examinations were obtained on all cases, and simple hearing tests were carried out in the majority of them. Eighteen of the patients died of smallpox and four of chickenpox. The principal lesions have been found in the middle ears of both groups. In many ears the changes resemble acute necrotizing otitis media. There is much round cell infiltration, and, in a number of sections, inclusion bodies have been found, including one Guarnieri body. Such changes relate closely to lesions found elsewhere in the body in the presence of a virus invasion. There are no previous histopathological studies of changes in the ear in acute smallpox or chickenpox infection, that can be found in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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