Bilateral Sudden Hearing Difficulty Caused by Bilateral Thalamic Infarction
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Bilateral Sudden Hearing Difficulty Caused by Bilateral Thalamic Infarction
Dear Editor, Sudden-onset bilateral hearing difficulty has various possible causes, including infectious diseases of the inner ear, ototoxic medications, and Meniere’s disease.1,2 However, there have been only rare reports of vertebrobasilar arterial infarction that extensively invades the brainstem, or bilateral middle cerebral artery infarction that simultaneously invades both auditory cortex...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Neurology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1738-6586,2005-5013
DOI: 10.3988/jcn.2017.13.1.107