Hearing Loss

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface to the Fifth Edition
Authors
Contributors
1. Hearing loss: An overview
2. The physics of sound
3. The nature of hearing loss
4. The otologic history and physical examination
5. Classification and measurement of hearing loss
6. The audiogram
7. Special hearing tests
8. Auditory-evoked phenomena: Theory and clinical applications
9. Conductive hearing loss
10. Sensorineural hearing loss: Diagnostic criteria
11. Noise damage and hidden hearing loss: Cochlear synaptopathy in animals and humans
12. Regenerative therapies for sensorineural hearing loss: Current research implications for future treatment
13. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss
14. Mixed, central, and functional hearing loss
15. Systemic causes of hearing loss
16. Hearing loss in children
17. Diagnosing occupational hearing loss
18. Hearing loss: Handicap and rehabilitation
19. Hearing protection devices
20. Tinnitus
21. Dizziness
22. Facial paralysis
23. Squamous cell carcinoma of the temporal bone
24. Sarcomas of the temporal bone
25. Hearing in dogs
26. Implications of nutraceutical modulation of glutathione with cystine and cysteine in general health and otology
27. Tables summarizing differential diagnosis
Appendices
	Appendix I: Anatomy of the ear
	Appendix II: Otopathology
	Appendix III: Otosclerosis, Paget’s disease, and osteogenesis imperfecta involving the ear
	Appendix IV: Neurofibromatosis
Index