A patient-benefit evaluation of unilateral congenital conductive hearing loss presenting in adulthood: Should it be repaired?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1386-1391

  Sperling, Neil M ^a,b   Patel, Nilesh ^a  

^a Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MIDDLE EAR RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032883394     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199909000-00004     Document Type: Article

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