CASE STUDY
USE OF WIDEBAND ABSORBANCE MEASUREMENT TO ASSESS LARGE VESTIBULAR AQUEDUCT SYNDROME: A CASE STUDY
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Lech Sliwa 1, C-F
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Anna Fabijanska 2, A,D-E
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Department of Experimental Audiology, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw/Kajetany, Poland
 
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Clinic of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology Surgery, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw/Kajetany, Poland
 
 
A - Research concept and design; B - Collection and/or assembly of data; C - Data analysis and interpretation; D - Writing the article; E - Critical revision of the article; F - Final approval of article;
 
 
Publication date: 2017-03-31
 
 
Corresponding author
W. Wiktor Jedrzejczak   

Wieslaw W. Jedrzejczak, Department of Experimental Audiology, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Mokra 17 Str., Kajetany, 05-830, Nadarzyn, Poland, email: w.jedrzejczak@ifps.org.pl
 
 
J Hear Sci 2017;7(1):52-55
 
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ABSTRACT
There is a limited number of diagnostic procedures to verify the presence of large vestibular aqueduct syndrome (LVAS) in humans. The wideband absorbance (WBA) measurement technique is a non-invasive and objective tool for assessing the amount of sound energy absorbed by the tympanic membrane over a wide frequency range. We suggest that WBA could be an aid for detecting LVAS in some hearing-impaired subjects. We report use of WBA on a patient who had bilateral sensorineural hearing loss associated with LVAS and cochlear abnormalities in both ears.
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