Treatment of subjective tinnitus: A comparative clinical study of intratympanic steroid injection vs. oral carbamazepine

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  She, Wandong ^a   Dai, Yanhong ^a   Du, Xiaoping ^b   Chen, Feng ^a   Ding, Xiaoqiong ^a   Cui, Xinyan ^a  

^a MEDICAL SCHOOL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HOUGH EAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Injection; Steroid; Tinnitus; Tympanum

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; DEXAMETHASONE; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; EARDRUM PERFORATION; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOUDNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENIERE DISEASE; NOISE INJURY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRESBYACUSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROUND WALL MEMBRANE FIBROSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUDDEN DEAFNESS; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTICONVULSANTS; CARBAMAZEPINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; TINNITUS;

EID: 66749129819     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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