Intratympanic methylprednisolone in refractory sudden hearing loss: A 27-patient case series with univariate and multivariate analysis

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-30

  Dallan, Iacopo ^a   De Vito, Andrea ^b   Fattori, Bruno ^c   Pietro Casani, Augusto ^d   Panicucci, Erica ^e   Berrettini, Stefano ^b   Marchetti, Manuela ^d   Nacci, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Universitaria Pisana ^*  (Italy)

^c Department of Neurosciences

^d 1st ENT Unit

^e UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intratympanic therapy; Steroids; Sudden sensorineural hearing loss; Transtympanic therapy

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONVALESCENCE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DRUG EFFECT; EARDRUM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUDDEN DEAFNESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HEARING LOSS, SUDDEN; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE;

EID: 74349121643     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3181c34f18     Document Type: Article

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