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Turkish Archives of Otolaryngology 2001; 39(4): 292-297 Abstract |
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Auditory
Neuropathy Odituvar
Nöropati |
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| *İnönü University, Faculty of Medicine, ENT Department, Malatya and **Egean University, Faculty of Medicine, ENT Department, İzmir, Turkey |
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| Auditory neuropathy, otoacoustic emissions, neural hearing loss, brainstem evoked response audiometry |
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"Auditory neuropathy" term describes a disorder in patients with hearing loss confirmed with pure tone audiograms but impaired word discrimination out of portion to the pure tone thresholds, absent or abnormal auditory brain-stem responses, and normal outer hair cell activity demonstrated with preserved cochlear microphonics and otoacoustic emission result. In this study, 3 patients who were identified as auditory neuropathy are reported. |
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| Accepted after revision: November 5, 2001 | |||
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Correspondence: |
Tamer Erdem, MD İnönü Üniversitesi Turgut Özal Tıp Merkezi KBB Anabilim Dalı Malatya - Türkiye, Phone: (0422) 310 06 60 / 4603 e-mail: terdem@hotmail.com
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Türk Otolarengoloji Arşivi / Turkish Archives of Otolaryngology |
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Copyright © 2002-2005 by the Turkish Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery Foundation. |
