Implications of laser assisted tympanostomy in adults

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 361-363

  Prokopakis, Emmanuel P ^a,b   Lachanas, Vassilios A ^a   Christodoulou, Panayotis N ^a   Bizakis, John G ^a   Karatzanis, Alexander D ^a   Velegrakis, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adult; Eustachian tube dysfunction; Laser assisted tympanostomy; Otitis media

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY TUBE DYSFUNCTION; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LASER ASSISTED TYMPANOSTOMY; LASER SURGERY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; OTITIS MEDIA; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; SEROUS OTITIS MEDIA; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYMPANOMETRY; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EAR DISEASES; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; OTITIS MEDIA; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; OTOSCOPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 18644370310     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mao.0000169761.77926.f7     Document Type: Article

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