Pulsatile tinnitus: Contemporary assessment and management

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 348-357

  Sismanis, Aristides ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Ippokration Hospital Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

arteriovenous fistulae; arteriovenous malformation; bruit; cause; idiopathic intracranial hypertension; management; pulsatile tinnitus

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ANEMIA; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTERY EMBOLISM; AUDIOMETRY; BRACHIOCEPHALIC ARTERY STENOSIS; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; CAROTID ANGIOPLASTY; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DURAL ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ESSENTIAL PULSATILE TINNITUS; FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA; GLOMUS TUMOR; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IDIOPATHIC INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION SYNDROME; IDIOPATHIC PULSATILE TINNITUS; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; JUGULAR FORAMEN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MIDDLE EAR; MYOCLONUS; MYRINGOTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OTOSCLEROSIS; OTOSCOPY; PAGET BONE DISEASE; PALATE MYOCLONUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE TINNITUS; REVIEW; SKULL BASE; STAPEDIAL MYOCLONUS; STAPES; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; TENSOR TYMPANI MUSCLE; TENSOR TYMPANI MYOCLONUS; THROMBOCYTHEMIA; THYROTOXICOSIS; TINNITUS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FIBROMUSCULAR DYSPLASIA; GLOMUS JUGULARE TUMOR; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; OTOSCOPY; TINNITUS;

EID: 80052719574     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: 15316998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOO.0b013e3283493fd8     Document Type: Review

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