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Original Article

The Masked Threshold to Noise Ratio in Brainstem Electric Response Audiometry: Assessment of the Conductive Loss Component by Bone-Conducted Masking

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Pages 153-163 | Received 13 Mar 1991, Accepted 26 May 1992, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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