Utility of laboratory testing in autoimmune inner ear disease

Laryngoscope

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1749-1754

  Hirose, Keiko ^a   Wener, Mark H ^a   Duckert, Larry G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Box 356515 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmune; Corticosteroid response; Hearing loss; Laboratory testing; Western blot

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARDIOLIPIN ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HEARING LOSS; HEMAGGLUTINATION TEST; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INNER EAR DISEASE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENIERE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EVALUATION STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032740519     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199911000-00005     Document Type: Article

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