title: Tinnitus: a multidisciplinary clinical approach.
abstract: This article provides a clinical step-by-step approach for assessing a patient with tinnitus as primary complaint. The medical diagnosis of the disease provoking the tinnitus has to be made first in a comprehensive evaluation, including imaging. The psycho-acoustic characteristics and the influence on health-related quality of life is a compulsory complementary assessment to establish a complete picture of the patient.
authors.affiliation: University Department of Otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery, University Multidisciplinary Tinnitus Centre of Antwerp, Antwerp University Hospital (UZA), Faculty of Medicine, University of Antwerp, Belgium. paul.van.de.heyning@uza.be
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Van de Heyning
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Meeus
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blaivie
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vermeire
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boudewyns
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: De Ridder
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods; D003939:Diagnostic Techniques, Otological; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D011788:Quality of Life; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology