Secure endoscopic sinus surgery with partial middle turbinate modification: A 16-year long-term outcome report and literature review

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-18

  Toffel, Paul H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BLEEDING; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EYE INJURY; FACIAL BONE; HUMAN; NOSE SURGERY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARANASAL SINUS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAFETY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SINUSITIS; TIME FACTORS; TURBINATES;

EID: 0037302922     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00020840-200302000-00003     Document Type: Review

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