Differential diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss

American Family Physician

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1125-1132

  Isaacson, Jon E ^a   Vora, Neil M ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIURETIC AGENT; GADOLINIUM; GENTAMICIN; OFLOXACIN; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CERUMEN; CHOLESTEATOMA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEBRIDEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXTERNAL EAR DISEASE; EXTERNAL OTITIS; GLOMUS TUMOR; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MENIERE DISEASE; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; MYRINGOTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OTITIS MEDIA; OTOSCLEROSIS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRESBYACUSIS; REVIEW; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STAPEDECTOMY; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

CHOLESTEATOMA, MIDDLE EAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GLOMUS TUMOR; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; OTITIS MEDIA; OTOSCOPY;

EID: 0141595146     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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