The use of porous polyethylene implants to correct nasal valve collapse

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 357-361

  Ramakrishnan, Jeevan B ^a   Danner, Christopher J ^a   Yee, Suzanne W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYETHYLENE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MALE; NOSE DISEASE; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; NOSE SURGERY; NOSE VALVE COLLAPSE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POROSITY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL OBSTRUCTION; NOSE; POLYETHYLENE; POROSITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847156497     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2006.11.010     Document Type: Article

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