Clinical and diagnostic characterization of canal dehiscence syndrome: A great otologic mimicker

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 920-926

  Zhou, Guangwei ^a,c   Gopen, Quinton ^a,b   Poe, Dennis S ^a,b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c LO 367 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fistula; Minor's syndrome; Patulous eustachian tube; Superior semicircular canal dehiscene; Vestibular evoked myogenic potential

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY TUBE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIZZINESS; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INNER EAR MALFORMATION; MALE; NOSE BREATHING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMICIRCULAR CANCAL DEHISCENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TYMPANOMETRY; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VERTIGO;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; BONE CONDUCTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIZZINESS; EAR DISEASES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABYRINTH DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFLEX, ACOUSTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; SUPINE POSITION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 34848873791     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e31814b25f2     Document Type: Article

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