Idiopathic sudden hearing loss: Contradictory clinical evidence, placebo effects and high spontaneous recovery rate - Where do we stand in assessing treatment outcomes?

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1124-1127

  Finger, Robert P ^a,b   Gostian, Antoniu O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Neuss City Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss; ISHL; ISSHL

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; STEROID;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REMISSION; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUDDEN DEAFNESS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

HEARING LOSS, SUDDEN; HUMANS; PLACEBO EFFECT; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750038567     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480600702084     Document Type: Review

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