title: [Audiologic assessment of the children with cleft lip/palate].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the audiologic characteristics of the children with cleft lip and/or palate.
  
  
  METHODS
  Sixty-two children with cleft lip/palate were enrolled in the study. Tympanometry, DPOAE, ABR were tested in all the chidren.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Regarding the ABR threshold as the diagnostic criteria, 51 (41.13%) ears had hearing loss, mainly moderate. Sixty-three (59.43%) ears had abnormal tympanometry, which meant the disorder function of the middle ear. Twenty-six (56.52%) ears didn't pass the DPOAE.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The proportion of the hearingloss in the children with cleft lip/palate was large. There was a good coherence among the three objective examinations when assess the children with cleft lip/palate.
authors.forename: Xiaoya
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Xiong
authors.forename: Renzhong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yuyun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D001299:Audiometry; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011184:Postoperative Period