KTP-laser stapedotomy with a self-crimping, thermal shape memory Nitinol SMart piston: 1 Year follow-up results: How we do it

Clinical Otolaryngology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 475-480

  Gerlinger, I ^a,c   Toth M ^b   Bako P ^a   Nemeth A ^a   Pytel, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LASER; LETTER; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; STAPEDOTOMY; STAPES; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOYS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BONE CONDUCTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSSICULAR PROSTHESIS; OTOSCLEROSIS; OTOSCOPES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FITTING; STAPES SURGERY;

EID: 53849101830     PISSN: 17494478     EISSN: 17494486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-4486.2008.01756.x     Document Type: Letter

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