Osteopetrosis is a rare hereditary disorder of bone development. We examined the right temporal bone of a 17-year-old boy with recessive osteopetrosis and a conductive hearing loss and describe the histopathologic characteristics. The conductive deafness in this case was caused primarily by recurrent otitis media.
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