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    Maud M. Morshedi & Mahmood F. Mafee

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Morshedi, M.M., Mafee, M.F. Calcification of the cartilaginous Eustachian tube. Neuroradiology 54, 525–527 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00234-011-0962-z

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