Clinical utility of the 512-Hz Rinne tuning fork test

American Journal of Otology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 59-62

  Burkey, John M ^a,b   Lippy, William H ^a   Schuring, Arnold G ^a   Rizer, Franklin M ^a  

^a Warren Otologic Group   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hearing loss; Rinne; Tuning fork

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; BONE CONDUCTION; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SCREENING TEST; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; BONE CONDUCTION; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031940975     PISSN: 01929763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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