Background: Hearing loss is one of the common complaints of diabetics. The aim of this study was to evaluate the hearing status of diabetic patients in Babol, North of Iran. Methods: The hearing status of 50 type 2 diabetic patients (case group) and 50 healthy individuals (control group) were evaluated from October 2011 to September 2012. Audiometry was done with the frequencies of 250, 500, 1...

background and aim: auditory p300 is an event-related potential. cognitive factors like attention are involved in the generation of p300. it seems that normative variation of p300 is necessary for clinical purposes. thus, the current study was designed to establish preliminary normative variation of p300 amplitude and latency at fz and cz sites in adults. methods: this cross-sectional study was...

Extracranial meningioma with extension into a middle ear is very uncommon. A 74-year-old female was admitted to our hospital with right ear bleeding when removing earwax. In this case, magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, her past history and operative findings would consider as infiltrative growth from the right sphenoid ridge meningioma to the right middle ear via the right petrou...

Research has suggested that the left hemisphere of the brain may be specialized for processing auditory speech, whereas the right hemisphere may be specialized for processing nonspeech auditory stimuli. Due to contralaterality in auditory pathways, this functional specialization has been reflected in behavioral advantages for speech stimuli presented to the right ear and for nonspeech stimuli p...

background: hearing loss is one of the common complaints of diabetics. the aim of this study was to evaluate the hearing status of diabetic patients in babol, north of iran. methods: the hearing status of 50 type 2 diabetic patients (case group) and 50 healthy individuals (control group) were evaluated from october 2011 to september 2012. audiometry was done with the frequencies of 250, 500, 10...