Ebmeyer, Jörg*; Ebmeyer, Umay†; Pak, Kwang‡; Sudhoff, Holger*; Broide, David§; Ryan, Allen F.‡; Wasserman, Stephen§
Departments of *Otorhinoloaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and †Obstetrics and Gynecology, Klinikum Bielefeld (Academic Teaching Hospital University of Münster), Bielefeld, Germany; and ‡Department of Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology and §Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, UCSD School of Medicine, La Jolla, California, U.S.A.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Jörg Ebmeyer, M.D., Klinikum Bielefeld, HNO-Klinik, Teutoburger Str. 50, 33604 Bielefeld, Germany; E-mail: [email protected]
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorder grants DC00129 (to A.F.R.) and DC006279 (to S.W.), by the VA Research Service, and by the German DFG (EB 260/1-1, to J.E.).
doi: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3181b4e3e3