Sensorineural hearing loss among sickle cell disease patients from southern Brazil
β Scribed by Otavio Piltcher; Luciana Cigana; Joao Friedriech; Fernando de Andrade Quintanilha Ribeiro; Sady Selaimen da Costa
- Book ID
- 117406327
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 399 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1532-818X
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