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Tinnitus: a multidisciplinary clinical approach

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University Department of Otorhinolaryngology and head and neck surgery

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University Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

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University Department of Neurosurgery, University Multidisciplinary Tinnitus Centre of Antwerp, Antwerp University Hospital (UZA), Faculty of Medicine, University of Antwerp, Belgium

B-ENT 2007; 3: Supplement 3-10
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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.

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