Postoperative Packing After Septoplasty: Is It Necessary?

Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 279-285

  Dubin, Marika R ^a   Pletcher, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Morbidity; Nasal splints; Packing; Septoplasty

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPISTAXIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORBIDITY; NOSE; NOSE SEPTUM; NOSE SEPTUM PERFORATION; NOSE SEPTUM RECONSTRUCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REVIEW; RISK; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SPLINT; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULITIS;

HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; NASAL SEPTUM; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RHINOPLASTY; SPLINTS; TAMPONS, SURGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 62849089717     PISSN: 00306665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otc.2009.01.015     Document Type: Review

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