Tinnitus

Handbook of Clinical Neurology

Volumn 129, Issue , 2015, Pages 409-431

  Levine, Robert A ^a   Oron, Yahav ^b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b E Wolfson Medical Centre   (Israel)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Hearing loss; Hyperacusis; Mechanism; Pulsatile; Somatosensory; Treatment; Vascular compression

Indexed keywords

COMPLICATION; HUMAN; TINNITUS;

HUMANS; TINNITUS;

EID: 84923320881     PISSN: 00729752     EISSN: 22124152     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-62630-1.00023-8     Document Type: Chapter

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