1 MCQs in ENT for NEET PG
A 32-year-old woman presents with 3 years of progressive bilateral hearing loss that worsened during pregnancy. She reports paracusis of Willis and autophony. Otoscopy shows a faint pinkish hue over the right promontory. Weber test lateralizes to the right ear; Rinne is negative bilaterally at 512 Hz. Pure-tone audiometry demonstrates the pattern marked **C** in the diagram: bilateral conductive hearing loss with an air-bone gap of 35 dB and a characteristic dip in bone conduction at 2 kHz. Tympanograms show Type As with absent stapedial reflexes. Which of the following best explains the bone-conduction dip at 2 kHz (Carhart notch) seen in this patient's audiogram?
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