Intratympanic Steroids: Do They Acutely Improve Hearing in Cases of Cochlear Hydrops?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1903-1907

  Hillman, Todd M ^b   Arriaga, Moises A ^a   Chen, Douglas A ^b  

^a Pittsburgh Ear Associates   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Hearing loss; Hydrops; Intratympanic; M ni re's disease; Steroids

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENIERE DISEASE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; DEXAMETHASONE; ENDOLYMPHATIC HYDROPS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MENIERE'S DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 0242408200     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200311000-00008     Document Type: Article

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