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# Re: "Operating room sound level hazards for patients and physicians."

Hetzler D.

_Otol Neurotol. 32(2):345; author reply 345. doi: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3182040c67. Otol Neurotol. 2011 Feb;32(2):345; author reply 345. doi: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3182040c67._

2011-02-01

## Abstract

Comment on: Operating room sound level hazards for patients and physicians. \[Otol Neurotol. 2010\]

[PubMed abstract](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21150683)

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