Assessment of potential effects of the electromagnetic fields of mobile phones on hearing

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Uloziene, Ingrida ^a   Uloza, Virgilijus ^a   Gradauskiene, Egle ^a   Saferis, Viktoras ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; NORMAL HUMAN; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; ADOLESCENT; AUDIOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; LITHUANIA; PHYSIOLOGY; SPONTANEOUS OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CELL PHONES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; MALE; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 22444434149     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-39     Document Type: Article

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