Tinnitus treatment with memantine

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 492-496

  Figueiredo, Ricardo Rodrigues ^a,b   Langguth, Berthold ^c   Mello de Oliveira, Patricia ^a   Aparecida de Azevedo, Andréia ^a  

^a OTOSUL Otorrinolaringologia Sul Fluminense ^*  (Brazil)

^b Valença Medical School   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMANTINE; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORNING DOSAGE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STOMACH PAIN; THERAPY DELAY; TINNITUS;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMANTINE; MIDDLE AGED; PLACEBO EFFECT; TINNITUS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 40949157083     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2007.11.027     Document Type: Article

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