Laser eustachian tuboplasty: A preliminary report

Laryngoscope

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 583-591

  Poe, Dennis S ^a,b,d   Metson, Ralph B ^a,b   Kujawski, Oskar ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Ear and Eustachian Tube Disorders Center   (Switzerland)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Eustachian tube dysfunction; Eustachian tuboplasty

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ADULT; ARGON LASER; ARTICLE; AUDITORY TUBE DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIODE LASER; EARDRUM; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; OTITIS MEDIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ADULT; EAR DISEASES; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0037383131     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200304000-00001     Document Type: Article

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