Factors influencing tinnitus loudness and annoyance

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1323-1330

  Hiller, Wolfgang ^a   Goebel, Gerhard ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Center for Behavioral Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOUDNESS; LOUDNESS RECRUITMENT; MALE; NOISE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TINNITUS; VERTIGO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; TINNITUS;

EID: 33845653261     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 08864470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.132.12.1323     Document Type: Article

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