American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 29, Issue 5 , Pages 312-318 , September 2008

Irradiated macula flava in the human vocal fold mucosa

  • Kiminori Sato, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume 830-0011, Japan. Tel.: +81 942 31 7575; fax: +81 942 37 1200.
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  • Hidetaka Shirouzu, MD
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  • Tadashi Nakashima, MD

Received 7 July 2007

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☆ Presented at the 128th Annual Meeting of the American Laryngological Association, San Diego, California, April 26 to 27, 2007.

☆☆ Recipient of the Poster Presentation Third Place Award

PII: S0196-0709(07)00146-9

doi: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2007.09.007

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 29, Issue 5 , Pages 312-318 , September 2008

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