Safety and usefulness of an electric knife during surgery for parotid benign tumor: Postoperative facial paresis and its risk factors

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 127, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 966-969

  Kawata, Ryo ^a   Lee, Kotetsu ^a   Araki, Michitoshi ^a   Takenaka, Hiroshi ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electric knife; Facial paresis; Parotidectomy; Surgical technique

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DEVICE; ELECTRIC KNIFE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAROTID GLAND; PAROTID GLAND TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOLYMPHOMA; ADENOMA, PLEOMORPHIC; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAROTID GLAND; PAROTID NEOPLASMS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34548324509     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480601089432     Document Type: Article

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