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Subjective Idiopathic Tinnitus: A Review (SIT)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2025

A. Shulman
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This meeting was conceived as a means of presenting the information to SIT—in a comprehensive, holistic manner. A joining of the aspects of basic sciences and clinical disciplines, as related to SIT. The purpose of the meeting is to provide a practical application of the presentations for the evaluation, treatment, and control of SIT. The goals of our meeting are:

(a) to establish standards for the evaluation and treatment of SIT;

(b) to present recent clinical advances in the diagnosis and treatment of SIT;

(c) to reduce and/or eliminate confusion in the site of lesion diagnosis and the symptom of SIT;

(d) to separate by evaluation the medical diagnosis that is etiology from the symptom and site of lesion of SIT to consider SIT as a separate entity;

(e) to control SIT—to conserve hearing.

As introduction to this meeting I am presenting an overview of the subject of SIT. I hope to emphasize the concepts of epidemiology; theories of mechanisms of SIT; basis science investigations relating to SIT; the state of the art, present and future, relating to SIT. Throughout our meeting stress will be placed upon correlating the basic sciences and the clinical sympton of subjective idiopathic tinnitus.

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