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Mucociliary function of the eustachian tube in the eustachian tube dysfunction

Leena PöyhönenDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland;
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Ilkka KivekäsDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland; Correspondence[email protected]
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Juha SilvolaDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland; ;Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Akershus Universitetssykehus HF, Lorenskog, Norway;
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Dennis PoeDepartment of Otolaryngology, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Markus RautiainenDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Tampere, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland;
Pages 238-242 | Received 11 Sep 2018, Accepted 16 Dec 2018, Published online: 14 Mar 2019

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