Endolymphatic mastoid shunt: A reevaluation of efficacy

Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 340-345

  Welling, D Bradley ^a   Nagaraja, H N ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENDOLYMPHATIC SHUNT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MASTOID; MASTOIDECTOMY; MENIERE DISEASE; NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TINNITUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENDOLYMPHATIC SHUNT; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASTOID; MENIERE'S DISEASE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PLACEBO EFFECT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELECTION BIAS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034055564     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhn.2000.101575     Document Type: Article

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