[Sudden deafness. Analysis of a series of 117 cases]

A retrospective study have been conducted in 117 cases of sudden sensori-neural hearing loss, between 1988 and 1991, int he department of Head and Neck Surgery (Strasbourg). After a brief review of actually treatments, they show, in a statistic and comparative analysis, that efficacy of therapeutics are never significant. This results are compared with international bibliography, and show that treatments of sudden loss remains doubtful.