[Unilateral reversible high-tone loss after rubella in adults (author's transl)]

Report on a patient age 18 in whom on the eighth day after a new, seriologically proved rubella infection a unilateral transitory, mediobasal laesio auris internae occurred without any vestibular irritation. Reference is made to the importance of carrying out an examination for a possibly viral genesis as soon as possible after the occurence, by which any type of sudden deafness is understood. Discussion on the development of the hearing defect on the basis of the available literature, whereby an endolymphatic labyrinthitis may be assumed.