The effect of surgeon experience on velopharyngeal functional outcome following palatoplasty: Is there a learning curve?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1375-1384

  Witt, Peter D ^a,b   Wahlen, John C ^a   Marsh, Jeffrey L ^a   Grames, Lynn Marty ^a   Pilgram, Thomas K ^a  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLEFT PALATE; COMPETENCE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PALATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISORDER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLEFT PALATE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PALATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPEECH DISORDERS; SURGERY, PLASTIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031752697     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199810000-00009     Document Type: Article

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