Neuro-otologic findings in unilateral isolated narrow internal auditory meatus

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 767-772

  Ito, Ken ^a   Suzuki, Sayaka ^a   Murofushi, Toshihisa ^a   Ishimoto, Shin Ichi ^a   Iwasaki, Shinichi ^a   Karino, Shotaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cochlear nerve; Facial nerve; Narrow internal auditory meatus; Neuro otological findings; Ontogeny; Vestibular nerve

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CALORIC VESTIBULAR TEST; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GALVANIC VESTIBULAR TEST; HEARING LOSS; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; ISOLATED INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL STENOSIS; MALE; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ONTOGENY; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STENOSIS; VESTIBULAR NERVE; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EAR CANAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VESTIBULE;

EID: 22644441938     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mao.0000178140.27472.b6     Document Type: Article

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