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During the past two years the authors have diagnosed and treated three patients with classical symptoms and findings of perilymphatic fistula (PLF). The patients responded well initially to surgical closure of their PLFs, only to experience reoccurrence of their symptoms (vertigo and/or hearing fluctuation) within weeks or months after the repair. All were found to have elevated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure, which was felt to be responsible for excessive pressure transfer through the cochlear aqueduct to and through a vulnerable location in the oval or round window.
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Weider, D.J., Saunders, R.L. (1996). Recurrent perilymphatic fistula as the initial and prime symptom of pseudotumor cerebri: Diagnosis and management with lumbarperitoneal shunt—Report of three cases. In: Ernst, A., Marchbanks, R., Samii, M. (eds) Intracranial and Intralabyrinthine Fluids. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80163-1_38
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