Post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage rates: Are they technique-dependent?

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Walker, Paul ^a   Gillies, Donna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIATHERMY; GROUPS BY AGE; HEMOSTASIS; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TONSIL DISEASE; TONSILLECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIATHERMY; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 33947580218     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2006.10.022     Document Type: Article

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