PREVALENCE OF TYMPANOGRAM ASYMMETRIES AND FLUCTUATIONS IN OTITIS-MEDIA WITH EFFUSION - IMPLICATIONS FOR BINAURAL HEARING

Authors
STEPHENSON H HAGGARD M ZIELHUIS G VANDENBROEK P SCHILDER A
Citation
H. Stephenson et al., PREVALENCE OF TYMPANOGRAM ASYMMETRIES AND FLUCTUATIONS IN OTITIS-MEDIA WITH EFFUSION - IMPLICATIONS FOR BINAURAL HEARING, Audiology, 32(3), 1993, pp. 164-174
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Otorhinolaryngology,Acoustics
Journal title
Audiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00206091
Volume
32
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
164 - 174
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-6091(1993)32:3<164:POTAAF>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
It has been suggested that asymmetric or fluctuating hearing in otitis media with effusion (OME) could lead to abnormal binaural hearing. In a cohort of children with tympanogram data obtained at 3-monthly inte rvals from 2 to 4 years, 6.4% had asymmetric or unilateral B tympanogr ams on more than half the test occasions, or had 5 or more fluctuation s between symmetric and asymmetric tympanograms. Hence there are suffi cient cases for studies of sequelae or treatment in unilateral and flu ctuating OME. Few of these cases would have received medical attention under a bilateral referral criterion.