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Hanifi Kurtaran1, Baran Acar2, Emre Ocak2

  • 1Turgut Ozal University Medical Faculty, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Ankara, Turkey.

Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology
|March 22, 2016
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Keywords:
Audiometria tonalDisfunção vestibularPerda auditiva neurossensorialPotenciais evocados miogênicos vestibularesPure tone audiometrySensorineural hearing lossVestibular dysfunctionVestibular evoked myogenic potentials

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