Pedicled nasoseptal flap is not the standard of care for skull base defects

Laryngoscope

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 896-897

  Solyar, Alla Y ^a   Fried, Marvin P ^b   Goldberg, Andrew N ^c   Kennedy, David W ^d   Lanza, Donald C ^a  

^a Sinus and Nasal Institute of Florida   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOPLASTY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY; LETTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOSE SURGERY; PATIENT CARE; PEDICLED NASOSEPTAL FLAP; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; POLYPOSIS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; CARTILAGE; COLLAGEN; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; HUMANS; MICROSURGERY; NASAL POLYPS; PARANASAL SINUS NEOPLASMS; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SKULL BASE; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; STANDARD OF CARE; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 79953114995     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.21405     Document Type: Letter

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