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Traumatic Brain Injury and Blast Exposures: Auditory and Vestibular Pathology

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Brain injury has been associated with a variety of ­neurologic sequelae including the auditory symptoms of hearing loss and tinnitus. Traditionally, we think of brain injury as being secondary to head impact and classify the resultant neurologic damage as mild, moderate, or severe [1]. This classification depends on a variety of factors including length of alteration of consciousness, force of the impact, associated injuries, and neuropathology (such as bleeding). This classification is important since it guides management of the injury and gives health care providers some information about the expected pathologies and best practices for management. There has been a great deal of work done over the years on blunt head injury; however, not all brain injury is secondary to blunt head impact.

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Abbreviations

mTHB:

Mild traumatic brain injury

TBI:

Traumatic brain injury

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  1. Spatial Orientation Center, Department of Otolaryngology, Naval Medical Center San Diego, 34800 Bob Wilson Drive, San Diego, CA, 92134-2200, USA

    Michael E. Hoffer

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  1. School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USAUSA

    Aage R. Møller

  2. Department of Psychiatry Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

    Berthold Langguth

  3. BRAI2N/TRI Tinnitus Clinic and Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Antwerp, Wilrijkstraat 10, 2650, Edegem, Belgium

    Dirk De Ridder

  4. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

    Tobias Kleinjung

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Hoffer, M.E., Balaban, C. (2011). Traumatic Brain Injury and Blast Exposures: Auditory and Vestibular Pathology. In: Møller, A.R., Langguth, B., De Ridder, D., Kleinjung, T. (eds) Textbook of Tinnitus. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-145-5_67

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