[49] Germany longitudinal conduction pure tone trinational audiometry population-based
Otoscopy, tympanometry, pure tone audiometry (0.5- 8 kHz), DPOAEs, and Knight USA Prospective ABR et al.
Unilateral conductive hearing loss due to OME was confirmed by hearing tests and
otoscopy. Prior to adenoidectomy, an office procedure of tympanocentesis had been performed plus corticosteroid nasal spray treatment for 2 months, but the symptoms persisted.
They can also be used for
otoscopy because they have high-quality video cameras, and for remotely controlling devices such as audiometers, tympanometers, and hearing aids.
The goose was fasted overnight before anesthesia for
otoscopy and cross-sectional imaging, and treatment with diazepam (0.5 mg/kg PO q12h) was begun to help with anxiety while hospitalized.
Pneumatic
otoscopy, which can reveal decreased or absent movement of the tympanic membrane (the result of fluid behind the membrane), is the primary diagnostic method recommended by the guideline.
The guidelines also emphasize pneumatic
otoscopy to ensure the presence of a middle-ear effusion, calling the pneumatic otoscope the "standard tool" for diagnosing otitis media.
Diagnosis was based upon history and clinical findings of
otoscopy. Patients were randomly divided into two equal groups of 74 each using random numbers table.
Methods concerning the ear-nose-throat evaluation The diagnosis of otitis media was established, by the same operator (SN), with
otoscopy, tympanometry and audiogram.
Pain is often disproportional to changes seen at
otoscopy.
Joseph Touma of Huntington have written an excellent resource, Atlas of
Otoscopy, Plural Publishing, Inc., San Diego: 2006.
Other endoscopic procedures and their targets include: bronchoscopy (trachea); colonoscopy (colon and large intestine); laryngoscopy (larynx); proctoscopy (rectum and lower colon);
otoscopy (ear canal); cytoscopy (bladder and urinary tract); and gastroscopy (upper gastrointestinal tract).
Tympanometry combined with
otoscopy increases the sensitivity and specificity of the diagnosis of COME to more than 90%.
