[Examination and significance of ABR in non-deafness tinnitus patients].
OBJECTIVE
Research on examination and significance of the auditory brain stem response (ABR) in non-hearing loss tinnitus patients.


METHODS
Recording from forehead-mastoid comparing ABR of non-hearing loss tinnitus patients with normal hearing youths.


RESULTS
In the tinnitus patients, the prolongate latency percentage of wave I was 51.6%; the wave III was 20.9%; wave V was 17.9%.


CONCLUSIONS
Although hearing-loss was not founded in the patients, but the cochlea of some patients had been damaged.
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Department of Otorhinolaryngology, First Teaching Hospital of N. BETHUNE University of Medical Sciences, Changchun 130021.
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Guo
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Ji
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015834:Cochlear Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D016057:Evoked Potentials, Auditory, Brain Stem; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000175:diagnosis*