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Abstract
Findings are reported for evoked otoacoustic emissions (EOAEs) recorded from 22 children
with neurological afflictions, whose brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs)
were pathological on at least one side (41 ears explored). Our results confirmed that
EOAEs are always present in children and infants having normal BAEPs. Absence of EOAE
(n = 22) was almost always related to middle ear or cochlear damage with BAEPs indicating
diagnoses, respectively, of transmission damage (n = 7) or endocochlear damage (n = 16). Conversely, for BAEP diagnoses of retrocochlear damage (n = 12), EOAEs were always present. EOAEs associated with BAEPs, therefore, appear to offer
a well-adapted technique for precise etiological diagnosis of childhood hearing loss.
When no wave is identifiable by BAEP recording, EOAE presence indicates retrocochlear
damage.
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Publication history
Accepted:
February 28,
1994
Received:
September 13,
1993
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© 1994 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. Published by Elsevier Inc.
