The role of a family history in King Kopetzky Syndrome (obscure auditory dysfunction)

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 197-200

  Stephens, Dafydd ^a   Zhao, Fei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Audioscan; Family history; King Kopetzky syndrome; Obscure auditory dysfunction; otoacoustic emissions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOMINANT GENE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEARING LOSS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; SYNDROME;

ADULT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENES, DOMINANT; HEARING LOSS, FUNCTIONAL; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SYNDROME;

EID: 0034157663     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000164800750000900     Document Type: Review

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