Hearing loss: Diagnosis and management

Primary Care - Clinics in Office Practice

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 19-31

  Lasak, John M ^a,b   Allen, Patrick ^a   McVay, Tim ^a   Lewis, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE WICHITA   (United States)

^b The Wichita Ear Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiometry; Hearing aids; Hearing loss; Otoacoustic emissions

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CONNEXIN 26; STEROID;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANOTIA; ASSISTIVE LISTENING DEVICE; ATRESIA; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDER; AUDITORY TUBE DYSFUNCTION; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BONE ANCHORED HEARING AID; CHROMOSOME 13; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCHLEA; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EAR INFECTION; EAR PROTECTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; EXTERNAL EAR; EXTERNAL OTITIS; GENE MUTATION; GJB2 GENE; HAIR CELL; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INJURY; INNER EAR DISEASE; INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; MENIERE DISEASE; MICROTIA; MIDDLE EAR; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; OTOSCLEROSIS; OTOSCOPY; OTOTOXICITY; PATHOGENESIS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESBYACUSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; SENSORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; STAPEDECTOMY; TEMPORAL BONE; TINNITUS; TUNING FORK; UNITED STATES; VERTIGO; VOICE AMPLIFICATION DEVICE;

AUDIOMETRY; HEARING AIDS; HEARING LOSS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS;

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; HEARING LOSS; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84892507123     PISSN: 00954543     EISSN: 1558299X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pop.2013.10.003     Document Type: Review

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