Assessment of nasal mucosa blood supply by quantitative endoscopic imaging of back-scattered light

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 307-312

  Prokopakis, E P ^a   Balas, C J ^a   Christodoulou, P N ^a   Gourtsoyiannis, N C ^a   Tosca, A D ^a   Helidonis, E S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

XYLOMETAZOLINE;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; COLOR; COLORIMETRY; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MODEL; NOSE MUCOSA; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; VASCULARIZATION; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0032878408     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0194-5998(99)70189-0     Document Type: Article

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