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Needle aspiration versus incision and drainage under local anaesthesia for the treatment of peritonsillar abscess

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A Letter to the Editor to this article was published on 20 December 2019

The Original Article was published on 12 July 2019

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Zhongshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Affiliated to Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, 3 Kangxin Road, Zhongshan, 528400, Guangdong, China

    Meng-Si Luo

  2. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, 88 Jiefang Road, Hangzhou, 310009, Zhejiang, China

    Guan-Jiang Huang

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Luo, MS., Huang, GJ. Needle aspiration versus incision and drainage under local anaesthesia for the treatment of peritonsillar abscess. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 277, 645–646 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-019-05663-7

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