Wideband tympanometry for evaluating middle ear function and hearing prognosis after endoscopic type I tympanoplasty
Xiaoqian Ren, Yihang Xu, Yijing Yang, Yueqi Zhang, Kexin Zhang, Qinzhuo Ma, Meiyi Pan, Wei Wang · 2025
Read Wideband tympanometry for evaluating middle ear function and hearing prognosis after endoscopic type I tympanoplasty by Xiaoqian Ren, Yihang Xu, Yijing Yang, Yueqi Zhang, Kexin Zhang, Qinzhuo Ma, Meiyi Pan, Wei Wang (2025) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-12719277.txt.
Description
Xiaoqian Ren and co-authors test a wideband ear probe as a forecast tool after eardrum repair surgery. Their twenty twenty-five study follows forty-four patients who had endoscopic repair for chronic middle ear disease. Their healthy other ears serve as the control set.
The probe sweeps many tones at once, giving absorbance and resonance reads beyond a classic single-tone test. Air-bone gaps were compared before and after surgery. The team links the wideband measures to how hearing recovers. A quick, painless probe that predicts who hears well after repair would help surgeons counsel patients and spot poor healing before symptoms shout.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xiaoqian Ren, Yihang Xu, Yijing Yang, Yueqi Zhang, Kexin Zhang, Qinzhuo Ma, Meiyi Pan, Wei Wang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |