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ENT Diagnostic Methods

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1. MRIs are good for...
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Indicates conductive hearing loss
Maxillary sinuses
Sensorineural hearing loss

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

3. vocal cords abduct to _______ and adduct to ______
Breathe - speak
85+ db
High frequency loss (presbycusis)
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema

4. advantage of mirror laryngoscopy

5. The osteomeatal complex is between...
Obstruction or stenosis
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
CT

6. small ear canal volume (<0.5) indicates...
Obstruction or stenosis
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Noise exposure hearing loss
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)

7. vocal cords are attached

8. a downward sloping audiogram indicates...
85+ db
Obstruction or stenosis
Eustachian tube destruction
High frequency loss (presbycusis)

9. if bone conduction is greater than air conduction
Doesn't require anesthesia
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Mixed hearing loss

10. Reinke's edema
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Perforation

11. advantages of direct laryngoscopy
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf

12. ascending audiogram indicates...
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Frontal sinuses
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)

13. A sinus CT should be...
0-25 db
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Maxillary sinuses
Coronal (frontal) without contrast

14. U-shaped audiogram indicates...
>88%
Maxillary sinuses
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Sensorineural hearing loss

15. profound hearing loss
Perforation
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
85+ db

16. vocal cord nodules
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Doesn't require anesthesia

17. 120 db

18. disadvantage of fiberoptic laryngoscopy

19. otoacoustic emissions (OAE)
Measures the response of the hair cells to sound.
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Systemic disease
Noise exposure hearing loss

20. a large ear canal volume (>2.5) indicates...
Perforation
Mixed hearing loss
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
>88%

21. waters view
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Doesn't require anesthesia
Eustachian tube destruction
Maxillary sinuses

22. flat audiogram indicates...
Systemic disease
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Doesn't require anesthesia

23. bone conduction is...
Neurological hearing
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
The maxillary and ethmoid sinuses
Anteriorly 'point to the front'

24. the only conductive hearing loss you can't see - 'carhart notch'
One sided
Doesn't allow for biopsy
Treatment and biopsy - palpate vocal cords
Otosclerosis

25. normal speech discrimination is...
Perforation
>88%
Systemic disease
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema

26. normal hearing loss
One sided
0-25 db
Systemic disease
Perforation or fluid

27. Weber test goes away from bad ear
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities
Indicates sensorineural hearing loss
Perforation
Sensorineural hearing loss

28. caldwell view
Declining cochlear function
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Mixed hearing loss
Frontal sinuses

29. decreased otoacoustic emissions indicate
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Declining cochlear function
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
85+ db

30. type c tympanogram
Often seen in smokers - vocal cord edema
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss
Eustachian tube destruction
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first

31. notched audiogram indicates...
Perforation or fluid
Noise exposure hearing loss
>88%
Low frequency hearing loss (menieres)

32. conductive hearing loss has
Neurological hearing
Noise exposure hearing loss
Indicates conductive hearing loss
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)

33. xray is good for visualizing...
Eustachian tube destruction
>88%
Maxillary and frontal sinuses
Doesn't allow for biopsy

34. Auditory brainstem response (ABR)
Otosclerosis
Perforation
Addresses the neurological aspect of hearing by EEG
Negative rinne test- conductive hearing loss

35. meniere's is...
CT
One sided
Often symmetric due to irritation from the first
Declining cochlear function

36. type b tympanogram
85+ db
Perforation or fluid
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural

37. An air/bone gap where both dip below 25 indicates...
Super loud - if you can't hear it you're deaf
Doesn't require anesthesia
Mixed hearing loss
Normal

38. study of choice for the sinuses
Otosclerosis
CT
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Tumors - soft tissue abnormalities

39. type A tympanogram
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Normal
Systemic disease
Declining cochlear function

40. if air conduction is greater than bone conduction
Anteriorly 'point to the front'
Positive rinne - either normal or snesorineural
Neurological hearing
An air bone gap (gap between brackets and XO)