Tinnitus: a multidisciplinary clinical approach.
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.
Van de Heyning
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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
Meeus
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Blaivie
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Vermeire
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Boudewyns
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De Ridder
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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