Pressure changes in the human middle ear without opening the eustachian tube

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 129, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1182-1186

  Pau, Hans Wilhelm ^a   Sievert, Uwe ^a   Just, Tino ^a   Sadé, Jacob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

ME pressure decrease; Middle ear pressure regulation; Non opening of the eustachiantube; Refraining from swallowing; Trans mucosal gas exchange

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY TUBE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE EAR PRESSURE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWALLOWING; TYMPANOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; AIR PRESSURE; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DEGLUTITION; DIFFUSION; EAR, MIDDLE; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; HUMANS; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; REFERENCE VALUES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350066783     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016480802570537     Document Type: Article

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