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REVIEW ARTICLE

Idiopathic sudden hearing loss: contradictory clinical evidence, placebo effects and high spontaneous recovery rate – where do we stand in assessing treatment outcomes?

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Pages 1124-1127 | Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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