Sensorineural hearing loss and word deafness caused by a mesencephalic lesion: Clinicoelectrophysiologic correlations

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 178-182

  Kimiskidis, V K ^a   Lalaki, P ^a   Papagiannopoulos, S ^a   Tsitouridis, I ^c   Tolika, Th ^a   Serasli, E ^b   Kazis, D ^a   Tsara, V ^b   Tsalighopoulos, M G ^a   Kazis, A ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b G Papanikolaou Hospital   (Greece)

^c PAPAGEORGIOU GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brainstern auditory evoked potentials; Efferent auditory system; Inferior colliculi; Otoacoustic emissions; Transient evoked otoacoustic emission suppression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MESENCEPHALON; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WORD DEAFNESS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION;

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDIOMETRY, SPEECH; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE AGED; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 3142698324     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129492-200403000-00017     Document Type: Review

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