Thermal welding versus bipolar tonsillectomy: A comparative study

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 975-978

  Karatzias, George T ^a   Lachanas, Vassilios A ^a   Sandris, Vassilios G ^a  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLEEDING DISORDER; CAUTERIZATION; CHRONIC TONSILLITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POWER SUPPLY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TONSILLECTOMY; WELDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646767456     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2006.03.003     Document Type: Article

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