External auditory canal after stapedotomy: Packing or not?

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 264, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1119-1120

  Salvinelli, Fabrizio ^a   Casale, Manuele ^a   Rinaldi, Vittorio ^a   Zini, Carlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; GELATIN SPONGE;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; FEVER; HEARING LOSS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPEDOTOMY; SURGICAL INFECTION; TAMPON; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; TYMPANOPLASTY; WOUND HEALING;

BONE CONDUCTION; EAR CANAL; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; GELATIN SPONGE, ABSORBABLE; HEARING; HEARING LOSS, CONDUCTIVE; HUMANS; OTOLARYNGOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; STAPES MOBILIZATION;

EID: 34547130282     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-007-0380-3     Document Type: Letter

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