"Auditory neuropathy": Physiologic and pathologic evidence calls for more diagnostic specificity

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 707-728

  Rapin, Isabelle ^a   Gravel, Judith ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

8th Nerve; Anatomy; Auditory neuropathy; Central auditory pathway; Electrophysiology; Hair cells; Neuropathy; Spiral ganglion cells

Indexed keywords

AGE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDIOLOGY; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTOPSY; BRAIN STEM; CELL LOSS; COCHLEA; COCHLEA POTENTIAL; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; DEMYELINATING NEUROPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FUNCTION TEST; HAIR CELL; HEARING AID; HEARING DISORDER; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TEST; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHY; NEWBORN JAUNDICE; NEWBORN SCREENING; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR NEUROPATHY; SPEECH; SPIRAL GANGLION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TREATMENT INDICATION; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0038278506     PISSN: 01655876     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-5876(03)00103-4     Document Type: Review

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