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Authors' reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2016

R W A Hone
Affiliation:
ENT Department, William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, UK
I J Nixon
Affiliation:
ENT Department, William Harvey Hospital, Ashford, UK

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