American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 28, Issue 6 , Pages 392-396 , November 2007

Audiologic evaluation of infants and preschoolers: a practical approach

  • Ioannis Psarommatis, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology, “P. & A. Kyriakou” Children's Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. 162 El. Venizelou St, 13231 - Petroupoli, Athens, Greece. Tel.: +30 2105060696; fax: +30 2105780275, +30 2107790072.
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  • Theodoros Valsamakis, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology, “P. & A. Kyriakou” Children's Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece
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  • Maria Raptaki, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology, “P. & A. Kyriakou” Children's Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece
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  • Alexandra Kontrogiani, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology, “EUROCLINIC” Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece
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  • Dimitrios Douniadakis, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otorhinolaryngology, “P. & A. Kyriakou” Children's Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece

Received 15 October 2006

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☆ Part of this work was presented (by the corresponding author) at 16th Greek Seminar of Audiology-Neurotology, which was held in Pilion, Greece, on June 23 to 25, 2006.

PII: S0196-0709(06)00296-1

doi: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2006.11.011

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 28, Issue 6 , Pages 392-396 , November 2007

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