Sudden hearing loss as the presenting symptom of systemic sclerosis

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 277-279

  Deroee, Armin Farajzadeh ^a   Huang, Tina C ^a   Morita, Norimasa ^a,b   Hojjati, Mehrnaz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Intravenous immunoglobulin; Scleroderma; Sudden hearing loss; Sudden sensory neural hearing loss; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; GADOLINIUM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FATIGUE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SUDDEN DEAFNESS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AUDIOMETRY; BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; SKIN;

AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; AUDIOMETRY; BIOPSY; FATIGUE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HEARING LOSS, SUDDEN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; PARESTHESIA; PREDNISONE; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SKIN;

EID: 65549091448     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e31819bda52     Document Type: Article

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