Management of frontal sinus fractures

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 7 SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages

  Manolidis, Spiros ^a   Hollier Jr , Larry H ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BONE GRAFT; BONE INJURY; BRAIN ABSCESS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMBRYOLOGY; ENDOSCOPY; EYE INJURY; FACE FRACTURE; FRACTURE REDUCTION; FRONTAL BONE; FRONTAL SINUS; FRONTAL SINUS FRACTURE; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURY; MENINGITIS; MUCOCELE; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NEUROSURGERY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SKULL FRACTURE; SOFT TISSUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

FRACTURES, BONE; FRONTAL SINUS; HUMANS; NASAL MUCOSA; OSTEOMYELITIS; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SCALP; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37849039215     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000260732.58496.1b     Document Type: Review

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