[Validation of a clinical scale for the diagnosis of perilymphatic fistula].

Introduction: The diagnosis of perilymphatic fistula (PLF) is difficult because no single clinical situation gives the diagnosis for sure. The goal of this article is to study the clinical situations where you must suspect a PLF and to support a clinical scale described in a previous work (Bussières et al 2003).

Methods: Retrospective study of 15 patients that had an exploratory tympanotomy with a PLF not confirmed preoperatively.

[When to suspect a perilymphatic fistula?].

Introduction: The diagnosis of perilymphatic fistula (PLF) is difficult since no single clinical situation gives the diagnosis for sure. The goal of this study is to clarify the clinical situations where you must suspect a PLF.

Methods: Retrospective study of 20 patients that had an exploratory tympanotomy with a PLF confirmed peroperatively.

[History of the rehabilitation of the deaf child].

As a deaf mute, because mute and more often than not deaf, and then deaf and dumb, because deaf and therefore dumb, the deaf child inevitably deprived of spontaneous speech was considered up to the end of the middle ages as having no possibility of language or of thought, left to the sorry fate of being part of a sporadic population expressing themselves by gestures, a language bereft of past and future, understood only by a few members of the family or occasionally deaf neighbours. During the Renaissance, it appeared that with specific education the deaf child could talk, have a language, and therefore thought. Due merit must be given to 16th century Spain.