The Bortnick Miller apparatus: a useful alternative to impedance audiometer for assessment of eustachian tube function in chronic suppurative otitis media
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Alternative treatment for otitis media with effusion: eustachian tube rehabilitation
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0019-5421,0973-7707
DOI: 10.1007/s12070-009-0052-2