Digital images for postsurgical follow-up of tympanostomy tubes in remote Alaska

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 87-93

  Kokesh, John ^a   Ferguson, A Stewart ^b   Patricoski, Chris ^b   Koller, Kathryn ^b   Zwack, Greg ^a   Provost, Ellen ^b   Holck, Peter ^c  

^a ALASKA NATIVE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM   (United States)

^c Public Health Sciences and Epidemiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIGITAL IMAGING; EARDRUM; EARDRUM DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPPA STATISTICS; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE EAR; OTITIS MEDIA; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; OTOSCOPE; OTOSCOPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TELECONSULTATION; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE; UNITED STATES; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ALASKA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; OTOSCOPY; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 45549104765     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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