Efficacy of Defibrinogenation and Steroid Therapies on Sudden Deafness

Archives of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 649-652

  Kubo, Takeshi ^a   Matsunaga, Tohru ^a   Asai, Hideyo ^a   Kawamoto, Kazutomo ^b   Kusakari, Jun ^b   Nomura, Yasuya ^c   Oda, Makoto ^c   Yanagita, Noriyuki ^d   Niwa, Hideto ^d   Uemura, Takuya ^e   Komune, Shizuo ^e  

^a University School of Medicine   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

^c University School of Medicine   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

^e KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATROXOBIN; BETAMETHASONE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEROID THERAPY; SUDDEN DEAFNESS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; BATROXOBIN; BETAMETHASONE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CLINICAL TRIALS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HEARING LOSS, SUDDEN; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0023917262     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 1538361X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.1988.01860180063031     Document Type: Article

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