Three-year ear, nose, and throat cross-sectional analysis of audiometric protocols for magnetic resonance imaging screening of acoustic tumors

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 438-447

  Cheng, Teddy Caramoan ^a   Wareing, Michael J ^a  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic neuroma; Asymmetrical hearing loss; Audiometric protocols; Interaural asymmetry; Mri screening; Neurotology; Otology; Vestibular schwannoma

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; OTOLARYNGOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84858827148     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599811427384     Document Type: Article

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