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30 Image of traumatic perforation of drum courtesy of Mr Rory Herdman ; no link available; page 539
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34 Figure 1b kindly supplied by Jane Jones of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals ENT Department; no link available; page 541
35 Figure 1c kindly supplied by Jane Jones of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals ENT Department; no link available; page 541
36 Clinical evidence
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