Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 82, Issue 1 , Pages 57-65 , January 2001

Long-latency auditory-evoked potentials in severe traumatic brain injury

,Accepted 19 March 2000.

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☆ Supported in part by a grant from the Ministero della Sanità, Rome, Italy.

☆☆ No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the authors or upon any organization with which the authors are associated.

★ Reprint requests to Letizia Mazzini, MD, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri (IRCCS), Centro Medico di Veruno, I-28010 Veruno (No), Italy, e-mail: lmazzini@fsm.it.

PII: S0003-9993(01)45930-2

doi: 10.1053/apmr.2001.18076

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