Lesion formation in radiofrequency surgery of the tongue base

Laryngoscope

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1572-1576

  Stuck, Boris A ^a   Köpke, Julian ^a   Maurer, Joachim T ^a   Verse, Thomas ^b   Eckert, Andreas ^a   Bran, Gregor ^a   Düber, Christoph ^a   Hörmann, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Energy application; Magnetic resonance imaging; Radio frequency surgery; Sleep disordered breathing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENERGY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY VOLUMETRIC TISSUE REDUCTION; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SOMNOPLASTY; SWINE; THERMOREGULATION; TONGUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANIMALS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SWINE; TONGUE;

EID: 0041382741     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200309000-00030     Document Type: Article

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