Blanket removal of the sublingual gland for treatment of plunging ranula

Laryngoscope

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 386-388

  Kobayashi, Takehiko ^a   Ochi, Kentaro ^a,b   Komatsuzaki, Yasushi ^a   Sugiura, Natsuki ^a   Saito, Susumu ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Toyoko Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUCOCELE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBLINGUAL GLAND; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; CHILD; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RANULA; SUBLINGUAL GLAND;

EID: 0037318015     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200302000-00034     Document Type: Article

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