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case_images: Pure tone audiogram revealed a sensorineural hearing loss with pure tone threshold of 43.7 dB in the left ear on admission day.
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case_images: An audiogram revealed SNHL with pure tone threshold of 43.7 dB in the left ear (Fig. 1).
case_images: Contrast-enhanced axial-T1 weighted images of MRI demonstrated that faint enhancement of basal turn of cochlea, vestibule, semicircular canals and intense enhancement of mastoid in the left side. These MRI findings are suggestive of otitis media with mastoiditis and tympanogenic labyrinthitis.
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case_images: Contrast-enhanced, axial-T1 weighted, MRI images demonstrated minor enhancement of basal turn of cochlea, vestibule, semicircular canals and intense enhancement of mastoid in the left side (Fig. 2).
case_images: Pure tone audiogram revealed an improvement with pure tone threshold 25 dB in the left ear at 9th day following steroid treatment.
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case_images: At first outpatient check-up 9 days after the commencement of steroid treatment, dramatic improvement was detected with pure tone threshold returning to 25 dB (Fig. 3).
case_images: Hearing returned to normal at all frequencies except for 8 kHz, 1 month after initial steroid treatment.
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case_images: Tinnitus continued to subside over the subsequent 1 month of outpatient follow-up (Fig. 4).