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Posterior Semicircular Canal Approach for Inner Ear Gene Delivery in Neonatal Mouse
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Imaging case of the month: inner ear malformation
S E Strome1, K B Baker, A W Langman
1Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, USA.
The American Journal of Otology
|May 22, 1998
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