An alternate approach for surgical dressing of bone-anchored hearing aid abutment sites

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 614-616

  Falcone, Michael T ^a   Labadie, Robert F ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone anchored hearing aid; Split thickness skin graft; Wound complication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BONE ANCHORED HEARING AID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WOUND; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; WOUND DRESSING;

ADULT; BANDAGES; FEMALE; HEARING AIDS; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE ANCHORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 34147113783     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/mlg.0b013e318030454a     Document Type: Review

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