Laser soft palate "stiffening": An alternative to uvulopalatopharyngoplasty

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 40-43

  Wang, Zhi ^a,b   Rebeiz, Elie E ^a   Shapshay, Stanley M ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DOG; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LASER SURGERY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEODYMIUM LASER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNORING; SOFT PALATE; UVULOPALATOPHARYNGOPLASTY;

ANIMALS; DOGS; LASERS; MOUTH MUCOSA; PALATE, SOFT; PHARYNX; SNORING; UVULA;

EID: 0036155064     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.10006     Document Type: Article

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