Tests

Tests to consider

audiogram

Test
Result
Test

Usually, an audiogram is obtained after the cerumen impaction has been removed, if the patient still complains of hearing impairment.

Findings that are characteristic are a conductive hearing loss, or a mixed hearing loss where the conductive component due to the impaction is superimposed on the underlying sensorineural hearing loss.

Result

hearing loss

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