Stapedoplasty in patients with small air-bone gap: Why not?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 535-537

  Salvinelli, Fabrizio ^a   Casale, Manuele ^a,b   Di Peco, Valerio ^a   Greco, Fabio ^a   Trivelli, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b Catholic University School of Medicine   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DISEASE COURSE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; OTOSCLEROSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPES SURGERY; SURGICAL RISK; TINNITUS; VERTIGO;

EID: 0037375521     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(03)00003-3     Document Type: Article

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