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. 2017 Nov;29(95):313-317.

A Comparison between Cold Dissection Tonsillectomy and Harmonic Scalpel Tonsillectomy

Ebrahim Karimi  1 , Alireza Safaee  1 , Shahin Bastaninejad  1 , Soheila Dabiran  2 , Elham Masoumi  1 , Farnaz Moravej Salehi  1
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A Comparison between Cold Dissection Tonsillectomy and Harmonic Scalpel Tonsillectomy

Ebrahim Karimi et al. Iran J Otorhinolaryngol. 2017 Nov.
No abstract available

Keywords: Harmonic scalpel; Postoperative Hemorrhage; Tonsillectomy; Tonsillectomy surgical methods.

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