Tinnitus: a multidisciplinary clinical approach
Van de Heyning, P.; Meeus, O.; Blaivie, C.; Vermeire, K.; Boudewyns, A.; De Ridder, D.
B-Ent 3(Suppl 7): 3-10
2007
ISSN/ISBN: 1781-782X PMID: 18225603 Document Number: 613486
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.