Hearing loss diagnosis followed by meningitis in Danish children, 1995-2004

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 428-433

  Parner, Erik T ^a   Reefhuis, Jennita ^b   Schendel, Diana ^b   Thomsen, Janus L ^a   Ovesen, Therese ^a   Thorsen, Poul ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL CENTER ON BIRTH DEFECTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DENMARK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COHORT STUDIES; DEAFNESS; DENMARK; EAR, MIDDLE; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33847129670     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2006.10.008     Document Type: Article

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