Possible new assessment of patulous Eustachian tube function: Audiometry for tones presented in the nasal cavity

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 431-435

  Kano, Shigeyuki ^a   Kawase, Tetsuaki ^a   Baba, Yasushi ^a   Sato, Toshinori ^a   Kobayashi, Toshimitsu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Audiometry; Autophony; Patulous tube

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AERATION; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY TUBE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE CARTILAGE; NOSE CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NASAL CAVITY;

EID: 2942708202     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480410016306     Document Type: Conference Paper

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