Objective assessment of autophony during phonation in the diagnosis of patulous Eustachian tube patients

A system enabling the objective assessment of the transmission of voice sounds to the external auditory canal (EAC) during phonation has recently been revised. Our aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of this new system in the diagnosis of patulous Eustachian tube (PET) patients by comparing the results obtained using this method with those obtained from conventional objective tests to diagnose PET.

Source: Auris, Nasus, Larynx - December 29, 2020 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Ryoukichi Ikeda, Shinji Hamanishi, Toshiaki Kikuchi, Hidetoshi Oshima, Yoshinobu Kawamura, Yusuke Kusano, Tetsuaki Kawase, Yukio Katori, Hiroshi Wada, Toshimitsu Kobayashi Tags: Original Article Source Type: research