Inferior nasal turbinate wound healing after submucosal radiofrequency tissue ablation and monopolar electrocautery: Histologic study in a sheep model

Laryngoscope

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1453-1459

  Gouveris, Haralampos ^a   Nousia, Christina ^a   Giatromanolaki, Alexandra ^a   Riga, Maria ^a   Katotomichelakis, Michael ^a   Ypsilantis, Petros ^a   Sivridis, Efthimios ^a   Danielides, Vassilios ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Animal; Electrocautery; Histology; Inferior turbinate; Mucosal; Nasal; Radiofrequency; Surgery; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SHEEP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBMUCOSA; TURBINATE; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; INFLAMMATION; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NECROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SHEEP; TURBINATES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77954419294     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20913     Document Type: Article

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