Thyroid cartilage fracture repair in rabbits: Comparing healing with wire and miniplate fixation

Laryngoscope

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 118-122

  Dray, Todd G ^a   Coltrera, Marc D ^a   Pinczower, Eric F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Box 356515 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTURE; HISTOLOGY; KIRSCHNER WIRE; LARYNX CARTILAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FRACTURE HEALING; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MALE; NECROSIS; RABBITS; THYROID CARTILAGE;

EID: 0032929119     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199901000-00023     Document Type: Article

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