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Newborn hearing screening in Eastern Saudi Arabia

A tertiary hospital experience

Amal A. Al-Shaikh Sulaiman
Saudi Medical Journal September 2024, 45 (9) 952-958; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2024.45.9.20240365
Amal A. Al-Shaikh Sulaiman
From the Otorhinolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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