Packing in endoscopic sinus surgery: Is it really required?

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 276-279

  Eliashar, Ron ^a,b   Gross, Menachem ^a   Wohlgelernter, Jay ^a   Sichel, Jean Yves ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETAMETHASONE; DIAZEPAM; HEMOSTATIC AGENT; MICROCRYSTALLINE COLLAGEN; MIDAZOLAM; PETHIDINE; PROMETHAZINE; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOSE MUCOSA; NOSE SURGERY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POLYPECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL POLYPS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; PRESSURE; SINUSITIS;

EID: 31944450896     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2005.10.012     Document Type: Article

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