A new resorbable tack fixation technique for endoscopic brow lifts

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 880-886

  Landecker, Alan ^a   Buck, Jennifer B ^a   Grotting, James C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYDIOXANONE; POLYLACTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; EDEMA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; EYEBROW; FACE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERIOSTEUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SKULL; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ADULT; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREHEAD; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES;

EID: 0037312307     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000041618.23878.A4     Document Type: Article

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