A double-blind randomized controlled trial of management of recurrent nosebleeds in children

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 670-674

  Calder, Nicholas ^a   Kang, Swee ^a   Fraser, Lyndsay ^a   Kunanandam, Tash ^a   Montgomery, Jennifer ^a   Kubba, Haytham ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; NASEPTIN; SILVER NITRATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREAM; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG ERUPTION; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADOLESCENT; CAUTERY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLORHEXIDINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG COMBINATIONS; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEOMYCIN; RECURRENCE; SILVER NITRATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 64749104438     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2009.01.017     Document Type: Article

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