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Little attention has been paid to alkaptonuria and ochronosis in otorhinolaryngologic literature until now in spite of the fact that auricle changes are typical and pathognomonic and belong to the first symptoms of the disease and they often lead to the diagnosis of this rare metabolic disorder.
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Urbánek, T., Rovenský, J. (2015). Symptoms of Alkaptonuria and Ochronosis in the Ear. In: Rovenský, J., Urbánek, T., Oľga, B., Gallagher, J. (eds) Alkaptonuria and Ochronosis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15108-3_17
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