Newborn hearing screening--a silent revolution.

نویسندگان

  • Cynthia C Morton
  • Walter E Nance
چکیده

From the Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology and Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School — both in Boston (C.C.M.); and the De partment of Human Genetics, Pediatrics, Medicine, and Otolaryngology, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (W.E.N.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Nance at the Department of Human Genetics, Sanger Hall, 11th floor, 1101 E. Marshall St., P.O. Box 980033, Richmond, VA 23298-0033, or at nance@ mail2.vcu.edu.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The New England journal of medicine

دوره 354 20  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006