Intratympanic steroid therapy in moderate sudden hearing loss: A randomized, triple-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Laryngoscope

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 774-778

  Filipo, Roberto ^a   Attanasio, Giuseppe ^a   Russo, Francesca Y ^a   Viccaro, Marika ^a   Mancini, Patrizia ^a   Covelli, Edoardo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

audiometric test; Deafness; hearing threshold; Level of Evidence: 1b; prednisolone; pure tone average

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; MODERATE IDIOPATHIC SUDDEN SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STEROID THERAPY; SUDDEN DEAFNESS;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HEARING LOSS, SUDDEN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84874425597     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23678     Document Type: Article

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