Cordless telephones and acoustic trauma: a case study.
Cordless telephones have been reported to cause irreversible damage to the ear due to acoustic trauma. The present case study reports an unusual audiometric configuration associated with direct exposure to the ring from a cordless phone. Although pure-tone sensitivity was only moderately affected, speech understanding was severely compromised.
D000328:Adult; D001299:Audiometry; D005260:Female; D006317:Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D013067:Speech Perception; D013689:Telephone