Short hospital stay following neck dissection

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 773-776

  Tracy, Jeremiah C ^a,c   Spiro, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIAL NERVE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL JUGULAR VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOUTH CAVITY; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAROTIDECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955745243     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 1538361X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archoto.2010.122     Document Type: Article

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