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Interest of the Cone Beam Scanner of Temporal Bones in the Analysis of Conductive Hearing Loss

France100 participantsStarted 2020-10-01

Plain-language summary

Conductive hearing loss is very common and the incidence increases with age. Until now, the scanner was the reference examination in the etiological diagnosis of deafness. When performing a CT scan of temporal bones for the etiological diagnosis of conductive hearing loss, the quality of the image depends on the scanner brand and the acquisition parameters. The investigators wish to show the usefulness of the cone beam in the diagnosis of conductive hearing loss

Who can participate

Age range

18 Years

Sex

ALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Major subject (≥18 years old) * Subject having performed a CT scan or a cone beam for pre- and post-operative conductive hearing loss between January 01, 2018 and December 31, 2020 * Subject who has not expressed his opposition, after being informed, to the reuse of his data for the purposes of this research. Exclusion Criteria: * Subject who expressed their opposition to participating in the study

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What they're measuring

Show retrospectively that the superiority of the cone beam over the scanner in the diagnosis of conductive hearing loss

Timeframe: Files analysed retrospectively from January 01, 2018 to December 31, 2020 will be examined

Trial details

NCT IDNCT06164184

SponsorUniversity Hospital, Strasbourg, France

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2023-12

Contact for this trial

Francis VEILLON, MD, PhD

33 3 88 12 78 65 francis.veillon@chru-strasbourg.fr

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