Tympanic membrane collagen fibers: A key to high-frequency sound conduction

Laryngoscope

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 483-490

  O'Connor, Kevin N ^a,b   Tam, Majestic ^b   Blevins, Nikolas H ^b   Puria, Sunil ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collagen fibers; Middle ear; Myringoplasty; Tympanic membrane

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARDRUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STAPES; TEMPORAL BONE; VELOCITY; BIOPHYSICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOPHYSICS; CADAVER; COLLAGEN; HUMANS; SOUND; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 42449119762     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31815b0d9f     Document Type: Article

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