High frequency immittance findings: Newborn versus six-week-old infants

International Journal of Audiology

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 711-717

  Mazlan, Rafidah ^a   Kei, Joseph ^a   Hickson, Louise ^a   Stapleton, Catherine ^a   Grant, Stephanie ^a   Lim, Sharyn ^a   Linning, Ron ^b   Gavranich, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b IPSWICH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustic reflex; High frequency; Immittance; Infants; Newborn; Transient evoked otoacoustic emissions; Tympanometry

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TYMPANOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EAR, MIDDLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEONATAL SCREENING; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX, ACOUSTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 35848941729     PISSN: 14992027     EISSN: 17088186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14992020701525858     Document Type: Article

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