Prolonged exposure to industrial noise: Cochlear pathology does not correlate with the degree of permanent threshold shift, but is related to duration of exposure

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 123-131

  Śliwińska Kowalska, Mariola ^a   Jedlińska, Urszula ^a  

^a NOFER INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Auditory brainstem responses; Cochlea; Noise induced hearing loss; Pathomorphology

Indexed keywords

CAVIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 3142552522     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.40.123     Document Type: Article

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