Reassessment of cochlear dead regions in hearing-impaired teenagers with severe-to-profound hearing loss

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 470-477

  Munro, Kevin J ^a,c   Felthouse, Catherine ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^b   Kapadia, Sarosh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dead regions; Hearing aid fitting; Hearing impairment; Inner hair cells; Teenagers

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THRESHOLD EQUALIZING NOISE TEST;

ADOLESCENT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING;

EID: 23944459282     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020500145783     Document Type: Article

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