The current role of local intratympanic Gentamicin therapy in the management of unilateral Meniere's disease

Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 34-41

  Pfleiderer, A G ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

^b EDITH CAVELL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intratympanic Gentamicin therapy; Medical labyrinthectomy; Menieres disease

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABYRINTHECTOMY; MALE; MENIERE DISEASE; MORBIDITY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATHETERIZATION; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; EAR, INNER; EAR, MIDDLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENTAMICINS; HEARING; HUMANS; INSTILLATION, DRUG; MALE; MENIERE'S DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031927669     PISSN: 03077772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2273.1998.00092.x     Document Type: Article

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