Thirty patients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss who presented to the University Hospital between January 1985 to January 1992 are presented. The combined regime of bed rest, intravenous dextran 40, vasodilator and steroid therapy produced good improvement in 63.4% of patients. Unfavourable prognostic factors were found to be, hearing loss of more than two weeks duration, vertigo and bilateral hearing loss.
Malignant lymphoma of nasal septum is uncommon. It presents a problem in diagnosis to both otorhinolaryngologist and pathologist. This case report is about one such patient in whom the local disease has been controlled with the treatment of radiotherapy alone. However it is suggested that combined treatment of radiotherapy and cytotoxic therapy might improve the survival rate.