Cochlear implantation: Minimal hair removal technique

Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 625-629

  Roberson, Joseph B ^a   Stidham, Katrina R ^a   Scott, Kenneth M ^a   Tonokawa, Lisa ^a  

^a California Ear Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HAIR; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SCALP; SEROMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HAIR REMOVAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0034088693     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhn.2000.104947     Document Type: Article

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