Preauricular skin tags and ear pits are associated with permanent hearing impairment in newborns

Pediatrics

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Roth, Daphne Ari Even ^a,b   Hildesheimer, Minka ^a,b   SaritBardenstein, ^b   DvoraGoidel, ^b   Reichman, Brian ^b   Maayan Metzger, Ayala ^b   Kuint, Jacob ^b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ear pit; Hearing impairment; Isolated; Newborns; Preauricular skin tags

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOLOGY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; AUDIOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EXTERNAL EAR; HEARING LOSS; HOSPITALIZATION; ISRAEL; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN SCREENING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; TIME;

AUDIOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EAR, EXTERNAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISRAEL; NEONATAL SCREENING; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 54049120623     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-0606     Document Type: Article

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