Transtympanic steroids as a salvage therapy in sudden hearing loss: Preliminary results

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Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 247-252

  Dallan, Iacopo ^a,b   Bruschini, Luca ^a   Nacci, Andrea ^a   Bruschini, Paolo ^a   Traino, Claudio ^a   Rognini, Ferdinando ^a   Fattori, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Sudden sensorineural hearing loss; Transtympanic steroid therapy

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE ACETATE; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; SUDDEN DEAFNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; EAR, MIDDLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HEARING LOSS, SUDDEN; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748460848     PISSN: 03011569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093093     Document Type: Article

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