Long-term comparison between submucosal cauterization and powered reduction of the inferior turbinates

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1612-1616

  Joniau, Sander ^a   Wong, Ian ^a   Rajapaksa, Suresh ^a   Carney, Simon A ^a   Wormald, Peter John ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cauterization; Hypertrophy; Inferior turbinate; Microdebrider; Nasal obstruction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATHERMY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NOSE CAVITY; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; NOSE SEPTUM RECONSTRUCTION; NOSE SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHINOMETRY; SUBMUCOSA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURBINATE; TURBINOPLASTY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAUTERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL OBSTRUCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINOMETRY, ACOUSTIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURBINATES;

EID: 33748575255     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000227999.76713.d3     Document Type: Article

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