Viruses and otosclerosis: Chance association or true causal link?

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 741-746

  Ferlito, Alfio ^a,k   Arnold, Wolfgang ^b   Rinaldo, Alessandra ^a   Niedermeyer, Hans P ^b   Grayeli, Alexis Bozorg ^c   Devaney, Kenneth O ^d   McKenna, Michael J ^e   Anniko, Matti ^f   Pulec, Jack L ^g   McCabe, Brian F ^h   Van Den Broek, Paul ⁱ   Shea Jr , John J ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c BEAUJON HOSPITAL   (France)

^d Foote Health System   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^g Pulec Ear Clinic   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

ⁱ RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^j Shea Ear Clinic   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF UDINE   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN D ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; BONE CELL; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL CULTURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; INNER EAR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASLES VIRUS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOCYTE; OTOSCLEROSIS; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPEDECTOMY; STAPES; TEMPORAL BONE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS NUCLEOCAPSID;

DEAFNESS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; OTOSCLEROSIS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0041425300     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480310000502     Document Type: Editorial

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