Performance of parotidectomy in nonspecialist centers

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 925-928

  Umapathy, N ^a   Holmes, R ^a   Basavaraj, S ^a   Roux, R ^a   Cable, H R ^a   Monsell, Edwin M ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CASE MIX; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENT EXAMINATION; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEALTH CENTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAROTIDECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RECURRENCE RISK; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGEON; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAROTID DISEASES; PAROTID NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0041886407     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.129.9.925     Document Type: Article

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