The poor relationship between hearing loss and ear disease minimizes the effectiveness of audiometry as a technique for the identification of middle ear disorders. Tympanometry has been shown to be a highly sensitive technique for the identification of and differentiation between middle ear disorders. It is particularly useful in a pediatric population where ear disease is so frequently encountered. The interpretation of tympanometry on the basis of a descriptive analysis of tympanograms is proposed as opposed to a coded typing system. Descriptive analysis views the pathological effects of middle ear diseases on pressure peaks, amplitude and shape of tympanograms.
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Alan S. Feldman (1976) studied this question.
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