Double skull base defects with primary spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leaks in a single patient: temporal and sphenoid bones.

Primary spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leaks occurring in the absence of any apparent cause are rare. Patients may present such leaks simultaneously, or successively, in multiple locations. We report here the sixth case of anterior and lateral skull base defects presented in a single patient.

Newborn hearing screening on infants at risk.

Objectives: This article presents the results of newborn hearing screenings on infants at risk of hearing impairment at the French University Hospital of Besançon from 2001 to 2007.

Materials And Methods: All newborns at risk of hearing impairment were tested according to the method recommended by the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing (JCIH): a two-step automated oto-acoustic emissions (AOAE) program, completed by an auditory brainstem response (ABR) for the positive diagnosis of hearing impairment. The screening started with AOAE on the third day of life, at the earliest.