Peritonsillar abscess - Critical analysis of abscess tonsillectomy

Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 420-424

  Dunne A A ^a   Granger, O ^a   Folz, B J ^a   Sesterhenn, A ^a   Werner, Jochen A ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Complications; Incision; Needle aspiration; Peritonsillar abscess; Tonsillectomy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TONSILLECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 0141616492     PISSN: 03077772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2273.2003.00736.x     Document Type: Article

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