Journal Reviews

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Global incidence of sporadic vestibular schwannoma

3 November 2022 | | Skull Base Surgery | acoustic neuroma, epidemiology, incidence, population-based studies, prevalence, review, sporadic, unilateral, vestibular schwannoma

The incidence rate of sporadic vestibular schwannoma (VS) has commonly been quoted as one in 100,000. However, since the advent of screening for asymmetrical hearing loss and increased availability of modern MRI scanning, more recent studies have shown the incidence...

Which is worse – unilateral or bilateral tinnitus?

1 January 2016 | | BDI, THI, Bilateral, chronic tinnitus, tinnitus, unilateral

Few studies have analysed subjective aspects of tinnitus or the association between clinical characteristics and the directionality of tinnitus. The study subjects comprised 207 patients who presented with tinnitus over two years and underwent tinnitus-related physical examinations and tinnitograms (includes...

Auditory processing in children with unilateral hearing loss

1 September 2014 | | unilateral hearing loss (UHL), P300, auditory plasticity, cortical reorganization

It is a common assumption that unilateral hearing loss (UHL) in children is of little consequence because appropriate development of speech and language can still occur with one normal hearing ear. Recent studies, however, suggest that there are significant differences...