Post-tonsillectomy pseudoaneurysm: An underestimated entity?

Journal of Laryngology and Otology

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 59-66

  Windfuhr, J P ^a   Sesterhenn, A M ^b   Schloendorff, G ^c   Kremer, B ^d  

^a Department of ORL Malteser Krankenhaus ^*  (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complication; Episodic bleeding; Post tonsillectomy hemorrhage; Pseudoaneurysm; Tonsillectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CHILD; COURT; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LINGUAL ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDLINE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TONGUE; TONSILLECTOMY; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONGUE; TONSILLECTOMY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149194700     PISSN: 00222151     EISSN: 17485460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022215109990922     Document Type: Article

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