Otosclerosis and stapedial footplate fixation in archaeological material

✍ Scribed by Gwen Dalby; Keith Manchester; Charlotte A. Roberts

• Book ID: 102556534
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 419 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1047-482X
• DOI: 10.1002/oa.1390030307

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A total of 1164 temporal bones from various cemetery sites in England were examined using a fibre optic endoscope. Eight bones were found to have evidence of otosclerosis in which proliferative new bone fixes the footplate of the stapes into the oval window, causing deafness. A prevalence of 0.9 per cent in this study is comparable with the incidence found in modern white populations and with that found in a study of 2760 Lithuanian temporal bones of various periods.