title: Acoustic reflex testing in otoneurology.
abstract: Three parameters of the acoustic reflex have been used in otoneurologic diagnosis: threshold (ART), decay (ARD), and latency (ARL). Each test is defined, put in historical perspective, and discussed in relation to diagnostic implications. We recommend that these three tests - ART, ARD, and ARL - be used as a group and describe how they are implemented in the audiologic diagnosis of acoustic tumors and other lesions affecting the auditory system in the cerebellopontine angle and brain stem.
mesh_terms: D000158:Acoustic Impedance Tests; D001309:Auditory Threshold / Q000502:physiology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D001933:Brain Stem; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D002530:Cerebellopontine Angle; D003390:Cranial Nerve Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D011930:Reaction Time; D012022:Reflex, Acoustic; D000160:Vestibulocochlear Nerve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*