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Utility of transoral pharyngeal ultrasonography for puncture drainage of peritonsillar abscess

Puncture drainage is usually needed to treat peritonsillar abscess. However, inadvertent carotid artery puncture may result in devastating complications. Preoperative transoral carotid ultrasonography (TOCU) is useful to delineate the anatomical relationship between the abscess and carotid artery. W...

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Autores principales: Hagiwara, Yuta, Araga, Takashi, Saito, Yoshimitsu, Sasano, Yoshiyuki, Tamura, Yuki, Shimizu, Takahiro, Hasegawa, Yasuhiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6452502/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30997099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2032