Morbidity in pediatric tonsillectomy

Laryngoscope

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 120-124

  Linden, Barry E ^a   Gross, Charles W ^b   Long, Thomas E ^c   Lazar, R H ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TONSILLECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARACHE; ELECTROCOAGULATION; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMAN; INFANT; LASER SURGERY; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 0025124556     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1288/00005537-199002000-00002     Document Type: Article

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