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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Hearing Loss
Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Conductive loss, Sensory loss, Neural hearing loss, Clinical Findings, Symptoms and Signs, Differential Diagnosis, Conductive (external or middle ear), Sensory, Neural, Diagnosis, Diagnostic Procedures, Treatment, Surgery, Therapeutic Procedures, Outcome, When to Refer, References,
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Topics Discussed: hearing impairment.
Excerpt: | |  Four mechanisms, each resulting in impairment of the passage of sound vibrations to the inner ear
| | – Obstruction (eg, cerumen impaction) – Mass loading (eg, middle ear effusion) – Stiffness effect (eg, otosclerosis) – Discontinuity (eg, ossicular disruption) |
Generally more correctable than sensory and neural losses |
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