Subjective and electrophysiologic tests in brain-stem lesions

Arch Otolaryngol. 1976 Oct;102(10):608-13. doi: 10.1001/archotol.1976.00780150076005.

Abstract

A battery of subjective and electrophysiologic auditory and vestibular tests were administered to 22 patients with neurologically confirmed brain-stem lesions to investigate the interrelationships between the test results. Acoustic-reflex and simultaneous midplane binaural loudness-balance abnormalities were related to N2 and N3 abnormalities on the brain-stem evoked-response measures. Unilateral abnormalities in low-redundancy speech tests, prolonged auditory reaction times, and reduced loudness growth on the alternate binaural loudness-balance test were related to ipsilateral N4 abnormalities or contralateral N5 abnormalities on the brain-stem evoked-response measures.

MeSH terms

  • Acoustic Stimulation
  • Astrocytoma / physiopathology
  • Audiometry
  • Auditory Cortex / physiopathology
  • Auditory Perception
  • Brain Diseases / physiopathology
  • Brain Neoplasms / physiopathology
  • Brain Stem / physiopathology*
  • Electrophysiology / methods*
  • Evoked Potentials
  • Glioma / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Multiple Sclerosis / physiopathology
  • Neurilemmoma / physiopathology
  • Reflex, Abnormal / physiopathology
  • Vestibular Function Tests