Hearing outcomes after surgical plugging of the superior semicircular canal by a middle cranial fossa approach

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1386-1391

  Ward, Bryan K ^a   Agrawal, Yuri ^a   Nguyen, Elena ^a   Della Santina, Charles C ^a   Limb, Charles J ^a   Francis, Howard W ^a   Minor, Lloyd B ^a   Carey, John P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hearing outcomes; Middle cranial fossa; Superior semicircular canal dehiscence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BONE CONDUCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EAR DISEASE; EAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESTIBULAR TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BONE CONDUCTION; CRANIAL FOSSA, MIDDLE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EAR DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 84866594350     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e318268d20d     Document Type: Article

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