Efficacy of Tonsillectomy for Recurrent Throat Infection in Severely Affected Children: Results of Parallel Randomized and Nonrandomized Clinical Trials

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 310, Issue 11, 1984, Pages 674-683

  Paradise, Jack L ^a   Bluestone, Charles D ^a   Bachman, Ruth Z ^a   Colborn, D Kathleen ^a   Bernard, Beverly S ^a   Taylor, Floyd H ^a   Rogers, Kenneth D ^a   Schwarzbach, Robert H ^a   Stool, Sylvan E ^a   Friday, Gilbert A ^a   Smith, Ida H ^a   Saez, Carol A ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOIDECTOMY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFICACY; HUMAN; PALATINE TONSILLECTOMY; PHARYNGITIS; PHARYNX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGERY; THERAPY;

EID: 0021357612     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198403153101102     Document Type: Article

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