American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 70-74 , January 2003

Staple-assisted laryngectomy for intractable aspiration

Presented at the Sixth Taiwan-Japan Conference in Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Taipei, Taiwan, December 6-7, 2001.

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☆ Address correspondence to: Mitsuhiko Nakahira, MD, Department of Otolaryngology, Kochi Medical School, Nankoku, Kochi, 783-8505 Japan. E-mail: nakahira@kochi-ms.ac.jp.

PII: S0196-0709(02)32405-0

doi: 10.1053/ajot.2003.3

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 24, Issue 1 , Pages 70-74 , January 2003

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