Clinical investigation and mechanism of air-bone gaps in large vestibular aqueduct syndrome

Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 532-541

  Merchant, Saumil N ^a,b,d   Nakajima, Hideko H ^a,b   Halpin, Christopher ^a,b   Nadol Jr , Joseph B ^a,b,d   Lee, Daniel J ^a,c,e   Innis, William P ^c   Curtin, Hugh ^a,b   Rosowski, John J ^a,b,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Air bone gap; Audiometry; Conductive hearing loss; Large vestibular aqueduct syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; AIR; AIR CONDUCTION; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; BONE CONDUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COCHLEA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISTORTION PRODUCT OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; LARGE VESTIBULAR AQUEDUCT SYNDROME; LASER DOPPLER VIBROMETRY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MIDDLE EAR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STANDARD; TYMPANOMETRY; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULAR EVOKED MYOGENIC POTENTIAL TESTING; VESTIBULE AQUEDUCT;

EID: 34447521956     PISSN: 00034894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000348940711600709     Document Type: Article

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