Hearing loss: an overview -- The physics of sound -- The nature of hearing loss -- The otologic history and physical examination -- Classification and measurement of hearing loss -- The audiogram -- Special hearing tests -- Auditory-evoked phenomena: theory and clinical applications -- Conductive hearing loss -- Sensorineural hearing loss: diagnostic criteria -- Sudden sensorineural hearing loss -- Mixed, central, and functional hearing loss -- Systemic causes of hearing loss -- Occupational hearing loss -- Hearing loss in children -- Hearing loss: handicap and rehabilitation -- Hearing protection devices -- Tinnitus -- Dizziness -- Facial paralysis -- Squamous cell carcinoma of temporal bone -- Implications of nutraceutical modulation of glutathione with cystine and cysteine in general health and otology -- Hearing in dogs -- Tables summarizing differential diagnosis.
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Covering all aspects of the anatomy, physiology, diagnosis, and treatment of hearing loss, this 4th edition offers new information on current diagnostic technologies, the latest concepts in the medical management of hearing impairment, the care and management of tinnitus, and the clinical control of disequilibrium--offering a comprehensive review of the many afflictions that impair the hearing of adults and children.