Otologic and audiologic lesions due to blast injury

Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 185-192

  Nageris, Ben I ^a   Attias, Joseph ^b   Shemesh, Rafi ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

hearing loss; perforated tympanic membrane; tinnitus

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; BLAST INJURY; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; DISEASE DURATION; DIZZINESS; EARDRUM PERFORATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING; HUMAN; INNER EAR DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED HEARING LOSS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; TINNITUS; TYMPANOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BLAST INJURIES; BONE CONDUCTION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EXPLOSIONS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, MIXED CONDUCTIVE-SENSORINEURAL; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TINNITUS; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE PERFORATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55049111533     PISSN: 07926855     EISSN: 21910286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JBCPP.2008.19.3-4.185     Document Type: Article

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