Five-year experience with the transoral endoscopically assisted treatment of displaced condylar mandible fractures

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 44-50

  Schön, Ralf ^a,b,c   Fakler, Otto ^a,b   Gellrich, Nils Claudius ^a,b   Schmelzeisen, Rainer ^a,b  

^a University Hospital ^*

^b University Hospital   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE CONDYLE; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BONE SCREWS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; JAW FIXATION TECHNIQUES; MALE; MANDIBULAR FRACTURES; RADIOGRAPHY, PANORAMIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 21744453451     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000169690.78547.0C     Document Type: Article

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