Transoral robotic nasopharyngectomy: A novel approach for nasopharyngeal lesions

Laryngoscope

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1613-1616

  Ozer, Enver ^a,b   Waltonen, Joshua ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck; Nasopharyngectomy; Robotic surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; FEMALE; HARD PALATE; HUMAN; NASOPHARYNX; PHARYNX DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SOFT PALATE; SURGICAL APPROACH; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUTH; NOSE;

CADAVER; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOUTH; NASOPHARYNGEAL DISEASES; NOSE; PHARYNGECTOMY; ROBOTICS;

EID: 51649122781     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e3181792490     Document Type: Article

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