Postoperative pain in tonsillectomy: Comparison of ultrasonic tonsillectomy versus blunt dissection tonsillectomy

ORL

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 339-342

  Sugiura, Natsuki ^a   Ochi, Kentaro ^a,b   Komatsuzaki, Yasushi ^a   Nishino, Hirohito ^a   Ohashi, Toru ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Toyoko Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bleeding; Postoperative pain; Tonsillectomy; Ultrasonically activated scalpel

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCALPEL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; APPETITE; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TONSILLECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 0036968239     PISSN: 03011569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000066082     Document Type: Article

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