[The principles of differential diagnostics and combined treatment of tinnitus]

The authors emphasize the importance of the problem of differential diagnostics and combined treatment of tymanophonia with special reference to the widespread, multiple, and diverse causative factors behind this condition as well as the great variability of its clinical signs and symptoms, and difficulty of recoding tympanophonia. The relative significance of various methods in the system of combined treatment of tympanophonia is discussed. It is concluded that the choice of therapy of this condition including the rational combination of pharmacotherapy and non-medicamental modalities, such as classical acupuncture, should be made taking into consideration individual characteristics of the concrete patients.