A case of auditory neuropathy revealed by OTOF gene mutation analysis in a junior high school girl

Objective: Congenital auditory neuropathy (AN) affects hearing and speech development. The degree of hearing difficulty in congenital AN varies as a function of pathology at the inner ear hair cell (IHC) synapses or the auditory nerve. We report a case of a Chinese girl with AN revealed by OTOF (oto...

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Main Authors: Ying Cheng, Masako Nakamura, Tatsuo Matsunaga, Kimitaka Kaga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-12-01
Series:Journal of Otology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1672293017300223