Tinnitus: Diagnostic approach leading to treatment

Seminars in Neurology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 256-269

  Levine, Robert Aaron ^a  

^a Tel Aviv Sourasky   (Israel)

Author keywords

craniocervical; dorsal cochlear nucleus; eighth nerve; hyperacusis; somatic; stress; tinnitus; vascular compression

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CARBAMAZEPINE; CISPLATIN; CLOMIPRAMINE; CLONAZEPAM; GABAPENTIN; NIFEDIPINE; QUININE; TOPIRAMATE;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BILATERAL HEARING LOSS; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DURAL ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; EARDRUM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXPLODING HEAD SYNDROME; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NEURALGIA; HEAD INJURY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HERPES ZOSTER OTICUS; HUMAN; INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MICROPHONE; NERVE COMPRESSION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PERILYMPH FISTULA; PONS ANGLE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER; TINNITUS; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HALLUCINATIONS; HEARING LOSS; HEART; HUMANS; HYPERACUSIS; TINNITUS; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 84884638092     PISSN: 02718235     EISSN: 10989021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1354603     Document Type: Article

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