A virtual reality model of eustachian tube dilation and clinical implications for cleft palate repair

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 236-241

  Dayan, Joseph H ^a,b   Smith, Darren ^a,b   Oliker, Aaron ^a,b   Haring, Julie ^a,b   Cutting, Court B ^a,b  

^a New York University Medical Center ^*

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMATOXYLIN;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY TUBE; CADAVER; CLEFT PALATE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLEFT PALATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PALATAL MUSCLES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 21744442554     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000172667.97909.36     Document Type: Article

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