Clinical Case · clinician
A puzzling combination on the same side
History
A 61-year-old has a right-sided mixed hearing loss — a sensorineural component with an additional air–bone gap. Tympanometry on the right is shallow. Reflexes are absent with the probe in the right ear and present with the probe in the left.
Findings
Pure-tone audiogram
○ Right ear✕ Left ear
Acoustic reflex grid
Stim. Right
Stim. Left
Probe Right
Absent
Absent
Probe Left
Present
Present