American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 156-158 , March 2011

Laryngotracheal separation procedure for elderly patients

  • Kenta Watanabe, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Otolaryngology, Tokyo Metropolitan Fuchu Hospital, 2-9-2 Musashidai, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, 183-8524, Japan. Tel.: +81 42 323 5111; fax: +81 42 323 9209.
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  • Muneo Nakaya, MD
    • ,
  • Kazuki Miyano, MD
    • ,
  • Kazuya Abe, MD

Received 26 September 2009

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PII: S0196-0709(09)00222-1

doi: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2009.10.003

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 156-158 , March 2011

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