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E B Strong1, B Rubinstein, C W Senders

  • 1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine,Sacramento 95817, USA. ebstrong@ucdavis.edu

Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery : Official Journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
|November 9, 2001
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