Clinical Effect of Low-Dose, Long-Term Roxithromycin Chemotherapy in Patients with Chronic Sinusitis

Acta Medica Okayama

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-37

  Kimura, Nobuhiko ^b   Nishioka, Keiko ^a   Nishizaki, Kazunori ^a   Ogawa, Teruhiro ^a   Naitou, Yoshihiro ^a   Masuda, Yu ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chronic sinusitis; Clinical evaluation; Long term; Low dose administration; Roxithromycin

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ROXITHROMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARANASAL SINUS; PATHOLOGY; SINUSITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARANASAL SINUSES; ROXITHROMYCIN; SINUSITIS;

EID: 0031066350     PISSN: 0386300X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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