Use of the nine-step inflation/deflation test as a predictor of middle ear barotrauma in sports scuba divers

British Journal of Audiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 153-163

  Uzun, C ^a   Adali, M K ^b   Tas, A ^b   Koten, M ^b   Karasalihoglu, A R ^b   Devren, M ^b  

^a TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Barotrauma; Diving; Eustachian tube; Middle ear tympanometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY TUBE; BAROTRAUMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUNSELING; DEVICE; DIVING; EAR DISEASE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE EAR; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; TYMPANOMETRY; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 0033948578     PISSN: 03005364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03005364000000125     Document Type: Article

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