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Published on: February 29, 2020
Hearing loss after lumbar puncture
1Department of Medicine, Whangarei Hospital, PO Box 742, Whangarei 0110, New Zealand.
Abstract:
We report a 63-year-old man who developed transient acute on chronic hearing loss after a lumbar puncture performed to investigate raised intracranial pressure. He was subsequently found to have stenosis of the distal left transverse sinus, which was treated with stenting.

