Indications for sinus surgery: How appropriate are the guidelines?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 332-338

  Piccirillo, Jay F ^a,b   Thawley, Stanley E ^a   Haiduk, Andrea ^a   Kramper, Maggie ^a   Wallace, Mark ^a   Hartman, James M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Box 8115 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARANASAL SINUSES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINUSITIS;

EID: 0031929781     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199803000-00005     Document Type: Article

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