Hearing loss after direct blunt neck trauma

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 734-737

  Segal, Samuel ^a   Eviatar, Ephraim ^a   Berenholz, Leonard ^a   Vaiman, Michael ^a   Kessler, Alex ^a   Shlamkovitch, Nathan ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Blunt neck trauma; Conductive hearing loss; Sensorineural hearing loss; Tinnitus; Whiplash injury

Indexed keywords

PLASMA SUBSTITUTE; STEROID;

ADULT; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPORT INJURY; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HEARING LOSS, HIGH-FREQUENCY; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HEARING LOSS, SUDDEN; HUMANS; MALE; NECK INJURIES; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; TINNITUS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0141454749     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129492-200309000-00007     Document Type: Review

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