Clinical predictors for hearing loss in children with bacterial meningitis

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 941-945

  Kutz, J Walter ^a   Simon, Lawrence Mariano ^a   Chennupati, Sri Kiran ^a   Giannoni, Carla Marie ^a,b   Manolidis, Spiros ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Texas Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIOMETRY; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; HEARING LOSS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33748872322     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 08864470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.132.9.941     Document Type: Review

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