Rapidly progressive bilateral sensory neural hearing loss as a presentation of mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 128-130

  Kaidar Person, Orit ^a   Golz, Avishay ^a   Netzer, Aviram ^a   Goldsher, Dorit ^a,b   Joachims, Henry Zvi ^a   Goldenberg, David ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Apt 201 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYMIDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; DISEASE COURSE; ENCEPHALOMYOPATHY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MNGIE SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0037348009     PISSN: 01960709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/ajot.2003.25     Document Type: Article

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