Routine pathological evaluation after tonsillectomy: Is it necessary?

B-ENT

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 103-108

  Dewil, B ^a   Jorissen, M ^b   Lemkens, P ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Malignancy; Risk factors; Tonsillectomy; Tonsils

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED TUMOR; MORBIDITY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PAPILLOMA; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONSIL CARCINOMA; TONSILLECTOMY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BELGIUM; FOLLOW UP; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TONSIL TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BELGIUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 33846855618     PISSN: 1781782X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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