Perioperative steroids in tonsillectomy using electrocautery and sharp dissection techniques

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 917-921

  Hanasono, Matthew M ^a   Lalakea, M Lauren ^a,b   Mikulec, Anthony A ^a   Shepard, Kimberly G ^a,b   Wellis, Vinit ^a   Messner, Anna H ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CODEINE PHOSPHATE; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; PARACETAMOL; STEROID;

ARTICLE; BURNING SENSATION; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STEROID THERAPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TONSILLECTOMY; VOMITING;

CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEXAMETHASONE; DISSECTION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROCOAGULATION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT WELFARE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PREMEDICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STEROIDS; TONSILLECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3843072137     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.130.8.917     Document Type: Article

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