Cochlear Damage from Ototoxic Antibiotics

Abstract

This short report is preliminary to an extensive one to be published in short as a thesis by A. Kohoncn. It deals with the pattern of degeneration in both sensory cells and neural elements in the organ of Corti after administration of ototoxic antibiotics. It is shown how the pattern of degeneration can be studied with newly developed techniques and the principles according to which the degeneration takes place are described.