Harmonic Scalpel versus cold knife dissection in superficial parotidectomy

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 397-400

  Blankenship, D Russ ^a   Gourin, Christine G ^a   Porubsky, Edward A ^a   Porubsky, Edward S ^a   Klippert, Frederick N ^a   Whitaker, Elizabeth G ^a   Terris, David J ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLD KNIFE DISSECTION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSECTION; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; FEMALE; HARMONIC SCALPEL PAROTIDECTOMY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PAROTID GLAND TUMOR; PAROTIDECTOMY; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PAROTID GLAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4644273209     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2004.03.043     Document Type: Article

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