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evoked otoacoustic emission
Indications:
- assessment of inner ear disease
- useful test for hearing defects in newborns & in children too young to cooperate in conventional hearing tests
Clinical significance:
- a sound which is generated from within the inner ear
- related to the amplification function of the cochlea
- in the absence of external stimulation, activity of cochlear amplification increases, leading to the production of sound
- lost with inner ear pathology
General
clinical procedure
References
- Wikipedia: Otoacoustic emission
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otoacoustic_emission
- CPT