Journal of Clinical Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery

The Busan, Ulsan, Gyeoungnam Branch of Korean Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

J Clin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1997; 8(2):293-297

pISSN: 1225-0244, eISSN: 2713-833X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35420/jcohns.1997.8.2.293

임상

Melnick-Needles증후군의 이과적 증상

박기현¹, 전상훈¹, 김휘준¹

Otologic manifestation of Melnick-Needles Syndrome

Keehyun Park¹, Sang Hoon Chun¹, Hui-Jun Kim¹

¹아주 대학교 의과대학 이비인후과학교실

¹Department of Otolaryngology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea

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Published Online: May 31, 2020

ABSTRACT

Melnick-Needles syndrome is a disease of skeletal dysplasia including sclerosis of the skull base, metaphyseal flaring of short and long bones, cortical irregularities and ribbon appearance of ribs, increasement in vertebral body height with anterior concavity, decreased lumbar disc space, marked coxa valga, delayed in general ossification, a delay in closure of the anterior fontanelle, facial abnormalities that show exophthalmos, mild hypertelorism, micrognathia, malaligned teeth and large ears.

There has been many reports of this syndrome since Melnick and Needles originally described this disease in 1966，but to date otologic description of this syndrome has been absent. So we report a case of this syndrome associated with stapes fixation.

Keywords: Melnick-Needles syndrome; Stapes fixation