Diagnostic approach to patients with tinnitus

American Family Physician

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 106-113

  Yew, Kenneth S ^a,b  

^a Family Medicine of Albemarle   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMFEBUTAMONE; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMPHOTERICIN B; ATORVASTATIN; BUPIVACAINE; CHLOROQUINE; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; DOXYCYCLINE; ETOPOSIDE; GANCICLOVIR; LIDOCAINE; LINEZOLID; MACROLIDE; MINOCYCLINE; PLATINUM DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; QUININE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIBAVIRIN; RISEDRONIC ACID; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; SULFONAMIDE; VANCOMYCIN; VARENICLINE; VINCA ALKALOID; VORICONAZOLE;

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUNSELING; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FOLLOW UP; GLOMUS TUMOR; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MENIERE DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT; TINNITUS; TYMPANOMETRY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; TINNITUS;

EID: 84892698642     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: 15320650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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