Medicolegal analysis of injury during endoscopic sinus surgery

Laryngoscope

Volumn 114, Issue 8 I, 2004, Pages 1492-1495

  Lynn Macrae, Alastair G ^a   Lynn Macrae, Rebecca A ^b   Emani, Janaki ^a   Kern, Robert C ^a   Conley, David B ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NW Univ Feinberg School of Medicine ^*

Author keywords

ESS; Litigation; Malpractice; Sinus surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; COST; DATA BASE; DIPLOPIA; ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EXPERT WITNESS; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INJURY; LAW SUIT; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NEGLIGENCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MALPRACTICE; OTOLARYNGOLOGY; PARANASAL SINUSES; SINUSITIS; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 3843089600     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200408000-00032     Document Type: Article

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