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Delayed-onset temporary auditory threshold shift following head blow in guinea pigs

Naokimi Tokui1, Hideaki Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Udaka

  • 1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1-1 Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu 807-8555, Japan. n-tokui@med.uoeh-u.ac.jp

Hearing Research
|December 3, 2004
PubMed
Summary

Head blows without skull fractures can cause sensorineural hearing loss due to eighth nerve damage, not cochlear impairment. Auditory brainstem response (ABR) changes indicate temporary nerve dysfunction, with recovery within 14 days.

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