Temporal bone imaging in unilateral severe to profound SNHL

Abstract

Estimation of the exact incidence of pediatric USNHL is difficult because children with USNHL may pass unnoticed until school age where it manifests as educational and social delay due to absence of binaural hearing in a noisy environment. Audiological assessment allows diagnosis and follow up of the hearing loss while radiological investigations allows diagnosis of the cause of hearing loss. Concurrently both can be used to map the proper intervention for each case. Also, A functioning screening system is still under development; so, it is difficult to point out and follow up of children with risk factors of hearing loss.