Sympathetic cochleolabyrinthitis - An occult disease?

Journal of Audiological Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 24-35

  Pyykko I ^a   Levo, H ^b   Blomstedt, G ^b   Rosenhall, U ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

acoustic neurinoma; Autoimmune inner ear disease; contralateral ear; progressive hearing loss; retrosigmoidal approach; translabyrinthine approach

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDIOMETRY; AUTOIMMUNITY; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSIS; ENDOLYMPHATIC SAC; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LABYRINTHITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENIERE DISEASE; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; SURGICAL APPROACH; VERTIGO;

EID: 0030998231     PISSN: 09637133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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