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ENT Diagnostic Methods

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1. Reinke's edema
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Obstruction or stenosis
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)

2. Weber test goes toward bad ear
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Normal
0-25 db
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural

3. vocal cord nodules
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
CT
Eustachian tube destruction

4. small ear canal volume (<0.5) indicates...
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Maxillary sinuses
Obstruction or stenosis

5. meniere's is...
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
One sided
Perforation
Eustachian tube destruction

6. Weber test goes away from bad ear
Doesn't require anesthesia
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Perforation or fluid

7. ascending audiogram indicates...
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
Neurological hearing

8. waters view
CT
Sensorineural hearing loss
Maxillary sinuses
Doesn't allow for biopsy

9. study of choice for the sinuses
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
CT
Frontal sinuses

10. An air/bone gap where both dip below 25 indicates...
Obstruction or stenosis
Mixed hearing loss
Neurological hearing
Normal

11. vocal cords abduct to _______ and adduct to ______
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
0-25 db
Breathe - speak

12. otoacoustic emissions (OAE)
One sided
Noise exposure hearing loss
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.

13. if air conduction is greater than bone conduction
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
0-25 db
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)

14. MRIs are good for...
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Mixed hearing loss
Sensorineural hearing loss
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.

15. conductive hearing loss has
Frontal sinuses
CT
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
High frequency loss (presbycusis)

16. a downward sloping audiogram indicates...
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Perforation
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Obstruction or stenosis

17. type c tympanogram
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Maxillary sinuses
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Eustachian tube destruction

18. advantages of direct laryngoscopy
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Normal
Perforation

19. a large ear canal volume (>2.5) indicates...
Otosclerosis
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)
CT
Perforation

20. vocal cords are attached

21. flat audiogram indicates...
Frontal sinuses
Neurological hearing
Systemic disease
One sided

22. type b tympanogram
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Maxillary sinuses
Perforation or fluid
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.

23. decreased otoacoustic emissions indicate
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Declining cochlear function
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords

24. if bone conduction is greater than air conduction
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Normal
Noise exposure hearing loss

25. caldwell view
0-25 db
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
Breathe - speak
Frontal sinuses

26. disadvantage of fiberoptic laryngoscopy

27. Auditory brainstem response (ABR)
Eustachian tube destruction
0-25 db
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Perforation or fluid

28. The osteomeatal complex is between...
Declining cochlear function
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Perforation or fluid

29. A sinus CT should be...
Breathe - speak
Doesn't require anesthesia
Coronal (frontal) without contrast
85+ db

30. 120 db

31. xray is good for visualizing...
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Declining cochlear function
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Breathe - speak

32. normal hearing loss
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
0-25 db
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Breathe - speak

33. advantage of mirror laryngoscopy

34. normal speech discrimination is...
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
>88%
Normal
Perforation

35. notched audiogram indicates...
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
Noise exposure hearing loss
0-25 db

36. profound hearing loss
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Eustachian tube destruction
85+ db
Perforation or fluid

37. the only conductive hearing loss you can't see - 'carhart notch'
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Otosclerosis
Obstruction or stenosis
Anteriorly 'point to the front'

38. U-shaped audiogram indicates...
CT
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Sensorineural hearing loss

39. bone conduction is...
CT
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Neurological hearing
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities

40. type A tympanogram
Normal
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Doesn't require anesthesia