Conductive hearing loss and multiple pre- and supra-auricular skin defects: a variant example of the branchio-oculo-facial syndrome

Conductive hearing loss and multiple pre- and supra-auricular skin defects: a variant example of the Branchio-Oculo-Facial Syndrome: We describe a 3-y ear-old girl with bilateral severe conductive hearing loss and multiple bil ateral supra- and preauricular defects with unusual overlying thin skin. Th e severe conductive hearing loss is due to abnormal configuration of the os sicular chain. Multiple pre- and supra-auricular skin defects have been des cribed in the Branchio-Oculo-Facial syndrome, and we propose that the findi ngs in our present patient may be a variant manifestation of this syndrome.