Aural symptoms in patients with temporomandibular joint disorders: Multiple frequency tympanometry provides objective evidence of changes in middle ear impedance

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1359-1364

  Riga, Maria ^a   Xenellis, John ^b   Peraki, Eleni ^b   Ferekidou, Elisa ^b   Korres, Stavros ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Multiple frequency tympanometry; Otic fullness; Temporomandibular joint; Tinnitus

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAR; OTOSCOPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; EAR, MIDDLE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTOSCOPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649520732     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3181edb703     Document Type: Article

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