Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy
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Tonsillectomy. US National Library of Medicine website. Available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003013.htm . Accessed July 20, 2003.
X -Plain: tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. US National Library of Medicine and the Patient Education Institute, Inc. website. Available at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/tonsillectomy/ol049101.pdf . Accessed July 20, 2003.
Last reviewed March 2008 by Elie Edmond Rebeiz, MD, FACS
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