Ear reconstruction with porous polyethylene implants

Advances in Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2010, Pages 53-64

  Berghaus, Alexander ^a   Stelter, Klaus ^a   Naumann, Andreas ^b   Hempel, John Martin ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDPOR; POLYETHYLENE; POLYETHYLENE DERIVATIVE;

AGE; ARTICLE; EAR; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; SKIN;

AGE FACTORS; EAR; HUMANS; POLYETHYLENE; POLYETHYLENES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKIN;

EID: 77954738321     PISSN: 00653071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000314562     Document Type: Article

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