Why is otosclerosis of low prevalence in Japanese?

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 377-380

  Ohtani, Iwao ^a   Baba, Yohko ^a   Suzuki, Tomoko ^a   Suzuki, Chiaki ^a   Kano, Makoto ^a   Deka, Ramesh C ^b  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Otosclerosis; Racial predisposition; Temporal bone

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; INNER EAR; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OTOSCLEROSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; VESTIBULE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEAFNESS; EAR, MIDDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTOSCLEROSIS; PREVALENCE; TEMPORAL BONE;

EID: 0038813827     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129492-200305000-00005     Document Type: Article

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