Prevention of laryngotracheal stenosis with carnitine after tracheotomy: An experimental study on rats

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 881-888

  Pata, Yavuz Selim ^a   Akbaş, Yücel ^a   Ünal, Murat ^a   Aydin, Özlem ^a   Görür, Kemal ^a   Özcan, Cengiz ^a   Polat, Gürbüz ^a  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Carnitine; Laryngotracheal stenosis; Prevention; Tracheotomy

Indexed keywords

CARNITINE; CHOLINESTERASE; MALONALDEHYDE; NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHOLINESTERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; GRANULATION TISSUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LARYNX STENOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; SKIN INCISION; SPECIES COMPARISON; TISSUE SECTION; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TRACHEOTOMY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0041668059     PISSN: 01655876     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-5876(03)00132-0     Document Type: Article

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