Relationship between audiometric slope and tinnitus pitch in tinnitus patients: Insights into the mechanisms of tinnitus generation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Schecklmann, Martin ^a   Vielsmeier, Veronika ^a   Steffens, Thomas ^a   Landgrebe, Michael ^a   Langguth, Berthold ^a   Kleinjung, Tobias ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDIOMETRIC SLOPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT EAR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT EAR; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; STUDENT T TEST; TINNITUS; TINNITUS PITCH; UNILATERAL HEARING LOSS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITCH PERCEPTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TINNITUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859958847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034878     Document Type: Article

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