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[Etiology of deafness in children]
J Delvaux de Fenffe1, N Deggouj, D Dutilleux
1Centre UCL d'Audiophonologie Paul Guns, Bruxelles, Belgique.
Acta Oto-Rhino-Laryngologica Belgica
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
A retrospective etiological study of 112 files of deaf children is presented. A prenatal etiology is found in 42.8%, a perinatal in 19.6% and a postnatal in 13.4% of the cases. No cause was suspected in 30.3% of the cases. These results emphasise existing literature.