Experience with presurgical nasal molding in infants with cleft lip and nose deformity

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 738-745

  Koželj, Vesna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLEFT LIP; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIP RECONSTRUCTION; MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY; NEWBORN; NOSE MALFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STENT;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; CLEFT LIP; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; NOSE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34547870555     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000270847.12427.25     Document Type: Article

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