Aims: 1. To evaluate the effects of radiation therapy on the inner ear, among patients treated with radiation therapy for head and neck cancers using a wide battery of tests (Audiometry and tympanometry, vHIT, VEMP, ENG) ; 2. To correlate the mean total radiation dose to the cochlea with the effects on audiological and vestibular function
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
17
Diagnostic tests
Audiometry
The change in hearing threshold and in the speech-audiometry
Time frame: 1.5 Year
ENG test
Abnormal function of the central vestibular pathways, unilateral weakness of the vestibular apparatus or direction preponderance
Time frame: 1.5 Year
VEMP test
Abnormal latencies, amplitudes, thresholds
Time frame: 1.5 Year
vHIT test
abnormal gain, the appearance of overt and covert saccades
Time frame: 1.5 Year
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