Revisiting outpatient tonsillectomy in young children

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 326-331

  Ross, Adam T ^a   Kazahaya, Ken ^a   Tom, Lawrence W C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY SURGERY; APNEA; ARTICLE; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; COMORBIDITY; DEHYDRATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG DYSPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TONSILLECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRISOMY 21; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 0037346251     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhn.2003.60     Document Type: Article

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