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ENT Diagnostic Methods

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1. MRIs are good for...
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
CT
Perforation or fluid

2. type b tympanogram
Neurological hearing
Mixed hearing loss
0-25 db
Perforation or fluid

3. bone conduction is...
Perforation or fluid
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Declining cochlear function
Neurological hearing

4. vocal cord nodules
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Doesn't require anesthesia
Perforation
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses

5. Auditory brainstem response (ABR)
Systemic disease
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Obstruction or stenosis
Normal

6. A sinus CT should be...
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Anteriorly 'point to the front'

7. Weber test goes away from bad ear
Maxillary sinuses
Doesn't require anesthesia
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
High frequency loss (presbycusis)

8. 120 db

9. notched audiogram indicates...
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Noise exposure hearing loss
Declining cochlear function
Anteriorly 'point to the front'

10. profound hearing loss
85+ db
Mixed hearing loss
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords

11. U-shaped audiogram indicates...
Sensorineural hearing loss
Mixed hearing loss
0-25 db
One sided

12. ascending audiogram indicates...
Maxillary sinuses
Noise exposure hearing loss
Declining cochlear function
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)

13. advantages of direct laryngoscopy
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Normal
Perforation or fluid
High frequency loss (presbycusis)

14. caldwell view
Frontal sinuses
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf

15. normal hearing loss
Frontal sinuses
Normal
Systemic disease
0-25 db

16. vocal cords are attached

17. type c tympanogram
Breathe - speak
Noise exposure hearing loss
Eustachian tube destruction
Perforation or fluid

18. flat audiogram indicates...
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Frontal sinuses
Systemic disease
Coronal (frontal) without contrast

19. conductive hearing loss has
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
0-25 db
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
85+ db

20. if air conduction is greater than bone conduction
Perforation
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Breathe - speak
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural

21. An air/bone gap where both dip below 25 indicates...
Mixed hearing loss
Frontal sinuses
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Obstruction or stenosis

22. decreased otoacoustic emissions indicate
Doesn't require anesthesia
Sensorineural hearing loss
Perforation or fluid
Declining cochlear function

23. Reinke's edema
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Declining cochlear function
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema

24. disadvantage of fiberoptic laryngoscopy

25. normal speech discrimination is...
Eustachian tube destruction
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
>88%

26. study of choice for the sinuses
CT
Perforation
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema

27. Weber test goes toward bad ear
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
85+ db
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)

28. The osteomeatal complex is between...
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses

29. a downward sloping audiogram indicates...
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural

30. meniere's is...
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Indicates conductive hearing loss
85+ db
One sided

31. small ear canal volume (<0.5) indicates...
0-25 db
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Obstruction or stenosis

32. a large ear canal volume (>2.5) indicates...
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Perforation
Declining cochlear function

33. if bone conduction is greater than air conduction
Otosclerosis
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss

34. waters view
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Maxillary sinuses

35. type A tympanogram
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Normal
Perforation
One sided

36. advantage of mirror laryngoscopy

37. the only conductive hearing loss you can't see - 'carhart notch'
Declining cochlear function
One sided
Otosclerosis
0-25 db

38. otoacoustic emissions (OAE)
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
One sided
Maxillary sinuses
Indicates conductive hearing loss

39. xray is good for visualizing...
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Noise exposure hearing loss
Normal

40. vocal cords abduct to _______ and adduct to ______
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Breathe - speak
Neurological hearing
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.