Successful cochlear implantation in a Susac syndrome patient
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Successful cochlear implantation in a Susac syndrome patient.
1 MD, PhD (Professor of the Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil). 2 MD, Otolaryngologist (Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery Department of Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil) 3 MD, Otorhinolaryngologist. MSc Department of otorhinolaryngology Medical School of the Federal University of Rio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brazilian Journal of Otorhinolaryngology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1808-8694
DOI: 10.5935/1808-8694.20120045