Recent-onset Bell palsy complicated by diabetes: Comparison of steroid and lipoprostaglandin E1 therapy

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1338-1340

  Koriyama, Tomoya ^a   Inafuku, Shigeru ^b   Kimata, Kiyoho ^a   Banno, Tatsuyuki ^b   Ishigami, Hiromichi ^b  

^a Nagoya Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^b AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROSTAGLANDIN E1; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELL PALSY; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET RESTRICTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034765312     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.127.11.1338     Document Type: Article

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