Tonic contractions of the tensor tympani muscle: A key to some non-specific middle ear symptoms? Hypothesis and data from temporal bone experiments

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 125, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1168-1175

  Pau, Hans Wilhelm ^a   Punke, Christoph ^a   Zehlicke, Thorsten ^a   Dressler, Dirk ^a   Sievert, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fullness of the ear; Middle ear resonance frequency; Tensor tympani muscle; Tinnitus impedance audiometry; Tonic tensor contractions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARDRUM; ENDOSCOPE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE AUDIOMETRY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL BONE; TENSOR TYMPANI MUSCLE; TRACTION THERAPY; TYMPANOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; HEARING DISORDERS; HEARING LOSS, SUDDEN; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALLEUS; MUSCLE TONUS; OTOSCOPY; TEMPORAL BONE; TENDONS; TENSOR TYMPANI; TINNITUS; TRACTION; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 29144494904     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480510012408     Document Type: Article

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