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CASE REPORT

Three young adult patients with Pelizaeus–Merzbacher disease who showed only waves I and II in auditory brainstem responses but had good auditory perception

Kimitaka Kaga Department of Otolaryngology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
, MD,
Fumi Tamai Department of Speech and Language Disorders, Hiroshima Prefectural College, Hiroshima, Japan
,
Mariko Kodama Department of Pediatrics, National Center for Handicapped Children, Tokyo, Japan
&
Kazuo Kodama Department of Pediatrics, National Center for Handicapped Children, Tokyo, Japan
Pages 1018-1023 | Received 07 Mar 2005, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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