Prevalence of hearing loss in Rett syndrome

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 338-343

  Pillion, Joseph P ^a   Rawool, Vishakha W ^b   Bibat, Genila ^b   Naidu, Sakkubai ^a  

^a KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CYPROHEPTADINE; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETT SYNDROME; SEIZURE;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTICONVULSANTS; BALTIMORE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; MUTATION; PREVALENCE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETT SYNDROME; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0037405096     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0012162203000628     Document Type: Article

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