caa a22 4500 386346429 CHVBK 20180307111813.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022215100110217 doi S0022215100110217 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022215100110217 Swan I. R. C. Glasgow Diagnostic vetting of individuals with asymmetric sensorineural hearing impairments [Elektronische Daten] [I. R. C. Swan] Audiological and vestibular tests were administered conjointly in a neurological or general ORL clinic to exclude cerebellopontine angle (CPA) tumours. This study aimed to assess the efficiency of various tests in achieving that exclusion with the minimum of unnecessary investigations. All patients received the full battery of auditory brainstem responses, acoustic reflex thresholds and decay, alternate binaural loudness balance and ENG and caloric testing. All patients who did not have normal auditory brainstem responses proceeded to high resolution CT scanning. One hundred and fifteen patients were investigated and four acoustic neuromas were diagnosed. The efficiency of these tests in a general ORL clinic is very much poorer than often suggested, due largely to the number of occasions on which the tests cannot be done, and to the very small proportion of the test population who have CPA tumours. Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1989 The Journal of Laryngology & Otology Cambridge University Press 103/9(1989-09), 823-826 0022-2151 103:9<823 1989 103 JLO https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022215100110217 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022215100110217 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Swan I. R. C. Glasgow NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Laryngology & Otology Cambridge University Press 103/9(1989-09), 823-826 0022-2151 103:9<823 1989 103 JLO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge