{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.014950166112956811, 'fraction_numerical': 0.0049833887043189366, 'mean_word_length': 5.347368421052631, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
Chronic otitis media as a cause of sensorineural hearing loss.

Charts from 404 patients with a diagnosis of chronic otitis media were reviewed to evaluate pretreatment and posttreatment bone-conduction thresholds. The patients were categorized into four groups depending upon the severity of their disease. Bone-conduction thresholds were found to decrease with the severity and the duration of the disease. Posttreatment bone-conduction thresholds were relatively unchanged from the pretreatment tests. It is concluded that sensorineural hearing loss can be a natural sequela of chronic otitis media.