Microdebrider vs electrocautery: A comparison of tonsillar wound healing histopathology in a canine model

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 486-491

  Johnson, Kaalan ^a   Vaughan, Andrew ^a   Derkay, Craig ^a   Welch, J Camille ^a   Werner, Alice ^a   Kuhn, M Ann ^a,b   Singletary, Sylvia ^a   Bondy, Peter ^c  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF THE KING S DAUGHTERS   (United States)

^c NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER PORTSMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DOG; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PUNCH BIOPSY; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; TONSIL DISEASE; TONSILLECTOMY; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; ELECTROCOAGULATION; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TONSIL; TONSILLECTOMY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 40849119799     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2007.11.016     Document Type: Article

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