Intraoral drainage: Recommended as the initial approach for the treatment of parapharyngeal abscesses

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 676-680

  Amar, Yannick G ^a   Manoukian, John J ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ANESTHESIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SAFETY; TREATMENT INDICATION; ABSCESS; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHARYNX DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ABSCESS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; HUMANS; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 2942737266     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2003.11.016     Document Type: Article

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