Steroids promote recovery in sudden hearing loss

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1068-

  Narozny, Waldemar ^a   Kuczkowski, Jerzy ^a   Mikaszewski, Boguslaw ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; HEARING LOSS, SUDDEN; HUMANS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; STEROIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646781264     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2005.10.064     Document Type: Letter

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