Presbycusic neuritic degeneration within the osseous spiral lamina

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 316-322

  Chen, Margaret A ^a   Webster, Paul ^b   Yang, Eric ^c   Linthicum Jr , Fred H ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HOUSE EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrites; Hearing loss; Presbycusis; Sensorineural

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; COCHLEA BASAL TURN; COCHLEA MIDDLE TURN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAIR CELL; HEARING LOSS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; NEURITE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRESBYACUSIS; PRESBYCUSIC NEURITIC DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STRIA VASCULARIS; TEMPORAL BONE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COCHLEAR DUCT; FEMALE; HAIR CELLS; HAIR CELLS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURITES; PRESBYCUSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33646840460     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129492-200604000-00005     Document Type: Article

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