Abstract
A case of the Lermoyez's syndrome was reported. A 33 years old of man complained of the attack of vertigo, tinnitus, and deafness occuring at the rate of about once a month. Obviously these three symptoms were the syndrome of the Meniere's disease, but in this patient the order of the appearance of these symptoms was very characteristic, coinciding with the Williams's expression about the Lermoyez's syndrome: increasing illuness, progressive deafness, then sudden vertigo and good hearing.According to the observations and considerations about this case, the following conclusions were obtained. Previously, as the Lermoyez's syndrome the following characteristics has been recognized, that is, (1) in the pause between attacks the hearing of the patient remains approximate normal, and (2) in the course of attack, the apperence of three cardinal symptoms is in the inverted order of that of the Meniere's disease. Now the author add the one remark, namely, the patient's depressed hearing abruptly returns to the normal level instantly at the biginning of the vertigo.
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