The use of high-density porous polyethylene as a custom-made nasal spreader graft

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 34-41

  Gürlek, Ali ^a,b   Celik, Mehmet ^a   Fariz, Alpay ^a   Ersöz Öztürk, Ayşe ^a   Eren, Ahmet T ^a   Tenekeci, Göktekin ^a  

^a T Özal Medical Center ^*

^b INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Airway obstruction; Allograft; High density porous polyethylene; Nasal airway collapse; Spreader graft

Indexed keywords

POLYETHYLENE;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; NOSE AIRFLOW; NOSE CARTILAGE; NOSE MALFORMATION; NOSE RECONSTRUCTION; NOSE SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYETHYLENE; POROSITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RHINOPLASTY;

EID: 32144442340     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-005-0119-8     Document Type: Article

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