title: [Examination and significance of ABR in non-deafness tinnitus patients].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, First Teaching Hospital of N. BETHUNE University of Medical Sciences, Changchun 130021.
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: B D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: X F
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: B C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Ji
mesh_terms: 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*