Wideband acoustic transfer functions predict middle-ear effusion

Laryngoscope

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 887-894

  Ellison, John C ^a,c   Gorga, Michael ^a   Cohn, Edward ^a   Fitzpatrick, Denis ^a   Sanford, Chris A ^a,d   Keefe, Douglas H ^b  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Sonicom Inc   (United States)

^c Starkey Laboratories   (United States)

^d IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbance; admittance; clinical decision theory; effusion; myringotomy; pneumatic otoscopy; receiver operating characteristic curve; tympanometry; wideband acoustic transfer functions

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARDRUM; HUMAN; INFANT; MEASUREMENT; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; MIDDLE EAR PRESSURE; OTOSCOPY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; WIDEBAND ACOUSTIC TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84858751528     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23182     Document Type: Article

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