One of seven cases of Pendred's syndrome studied had mixed hearing loss, bilateral congenital stapes foot-plate fixation, surgically proven unilateral perilymph fistula and delayed fluctuating hearing loss in the unoperated ear. A unifying hypothesis is proposed to link these diversified findings.
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