The Gelfoam® plug: An alternative treatment for small eardrum perforations

Laryngoscope

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 782-784

  Niklasson, Anders ^a   Tano, Krister ^b  

^a Piteå Hospital   (Sweden)

^b SUNDERBY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gelfoam ; myringoplasty; perforation; Tympanic membrane

Indexed keywords

GELFOAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EARDRUM PERFORATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MYRINGOPLASTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHILD; FEMALE; GELATIN SPONGE, ABSORBABLE; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYRINGOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE PERFORATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953096819     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.21451     Document Type: Article

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