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Response to the letter to the editor on “Longitudinal perioperative pain, neuromusculoskeletal complications and quality-of-life assessment in partial parotidectomy”

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  1. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Sultan II. Abdülhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Selimiye Mahallesi, Tıbbiye Cd, 34668, Üsküdar, İstanbul, Turkey

    Tugba Ozsoy-Unubol

  2. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Sultan II. Abdulhamid Han Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

    Suphi Bulgurcu & Bulent Evren Erkul

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Ozsoy-Unubol, T., Bulgurcu, S. & Erkul, B.E. Response to the letter to the editor on “Longitudinal perioperative pain, neuromusculoskeletal complications and quality-of-life assessment in partial parotidectomy”. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 278, 301–302 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-020-06432-7

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