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Higher magnification of the organ of Corti in Case #1 (see boxed area in Fig. 3). The organ of Corti in the basal turn 13mm from the basal end of the cochlea. There has been total atrophy of the organ of Corti (OC) which was replaced by a layer of flat epithelial cells. The tectorial membrane (TM ) was artifactually avulsed from the limbus (L). There was moderate atrophy of the stria vascularis (SV), and postmortem vacuolization.
