Are routine dissolvable nasal dressings necessary following endoscopic sinus surgery?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1920-1921

  Valentine, Rowan ^a   Wormald, Peter John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; CELLULOSE; CHITOSAN; COLLAGEN; GELATIN; HEMOSTATIC AGENT; HYALURONIC ACID; MITOMYCIN C; POLYURETHAN FOAM; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

BLOOD CLOTTING; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY; ETHMOID SINUS; GRANULATION TISSUE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; NASAL DRESSING; NONHUMAN; NOSE CAVITY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; BANDAGES; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 78649852637     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.21005     Document Type: Short Survey

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