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Antibiotic use in tonsillectomies: therapeutic or prophylactic? Required or excessive?

Adenotonsillectomy is one of the most commonly performed surgeries in the pediatric and young adult populations. The postoperative morbidity of this surgical procedure is often significant, including odynophagia, dysphagia, fever, halitosis, loss of weight and reduced oral intake. After tonsillectom...

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Autores principales: Piltcher, Otávio Bejzman, Scarton, Fabiana Bortoncello
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9442137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16612533
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1808-8694(15)31275-1