Typical Caloric ENG Findings in the Claussen-Butterfly in Tinnitus Cases
- Authors
- Prof.Dr.med. Claus F. Claussen (Bad Kissingen, Germany)
Dr. med. Anemone Luca (Brasov, Romania)
Dr. med. Aureliana Serban (, ) - Proceedings
- XXXV Congress of the NES - Bad Kissingen - Germany
- Topics
- Sensology
Hearing
Diseases
Sensology
Hearing
Neurootology - Keywords
- caloric test, Claussen-Butterfly, Tinnitus, Vertigo.
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the different caloric findings in the Claussen-Butterflies in tinnitus patients under the assumption of a closely interrelated stato-acoustic network and to correlate these findings with our different tinnitus types.
For this we used the NODEC IV data bank and searched for the most frequent types of butterflies in the tinnitus patients. From these patients we took a sample of 56, classified them into: endogenous tinnitus, exogenous tinnitus, combined tinnitus and bruit. Then we correlated each type with a closely related butterfly pattern. Only a minority suffered from objective and quantitative measurable peripheral vestibular lesions. However the majority revealed central vestibular lesions, more obvious together with endogenous tinnitus.
