Tympanic membrane healing process and biocompatibility of an innovative absorbable ventilation tube

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-70

  D'Eredità, Riccardo ^a,c   Marsh, Roger R ^b  

^a Dept Otolaryngol Hd Neck Surg   (Italy)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Absorbable ventilation tube; Biocompatibility; Healing process; Otitis media; Tympanic membrane

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; POLY BIS(ETHYLALANATE)PHOSPHAZENE; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIODEGRADABILITY; DEVICE INFECTION; EAR; EARDRUM; GUINEA PIG; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; MIDDLE EAR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKIN EPITHELIUM; SURVIVAL TIME; TISSUE REACTION; TUBE REMOVAL; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE; WOUND HEALING;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; GUINEA PIGS; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 29444432390     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00129492-200601000-00012     Document Type: Article

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