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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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Published In
Journal
B-ENT
Volume / Issue
Volume 3 · Issue Supplement 1
Pages
3-10
History
Published Online
April 15, 2007
Affiliations
P. Van de Heyning
Antwerp University Hospital, University of Antwerp, Edegem, Antwerp, Belgium
O. Meeus
BRAI2 N, TRI Tinnitus Clinic & Department of ENT surgery, University Hospital Antwerp, Belgium
C. Blaivie
University Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital (UZA), University of Antwerp, Belgium
K. Vermeire
University Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent University, Belgium
A. Boudewyns
Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium
D. De Ridder
Department of Neurosurgery
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Heyning, P. V. de, Meeus, O., Blaivie, C., Vermeire, K., Boudewyns, A., & De Ridder, D. (2007). Tinnitus: a multidisciplinary clinical approach. B-ENT, 3(Supplement 1), 3–10. Retrieved from https://www.b-ent.be/index.php/pub/article/view/116
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