[Spontaneous otoliquorrhea, complicated by recurrent secondary meningitis, in a 6-year-old child with an abnormality of the inner ear]. / Spontannaya otolikvoreya, oslozhnennaya retsidiviruyushchim vtorichnym meningitom, u rebenka 6 let s anomaliei razvitiya vnutrennego ukha.

Congenital anomalies in the inner ear structures development are one of the reasons for unilateral hearing loss in children. Unilateral hearing loss is predominantly congenital, thus children with this pathology are initially deprived of the ability to hear with both ears, which leads to the formation of a specific «individual hearing norm¼. Due to this, children do not complain of hearing loss, and unsuspecting parents can only guess why their child is poorly studying and lagging behind his peers. Unfortunately, in some situations the detection of malformations of inner ear structures occurs only after the development of complications, namely spontaneous otoliquorrea, leading to bacterial meningitis, and exactly episodes of meningitis (sometimes recurrent) become the cause for examination of patient and diagnosis of this pathology. We present one of this clinical observations.