Dead regions in the cochlea at 4 kHz in elderly adults: Relation to absolute threshold, steepness of audiogram, and pure-tone average

Journal of the American Academy of Audiology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 97-106

  Aazh, Hashir ^a   Moore, Brian C J ^b  

^a EALING HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absolute thershold; Audiogram; Dead regions; Elderly adults; TEN test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33947732460     PISSN: 10500545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3766/jaaa.18.2.2     Document Type: Article

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