Endoscopic trans-septal frontal sinusotomy: The rationale and results of an alternative technique

American Journal of Rhinology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 279-287

  McLaughlin, Robert B ^a   Hwang, Peter H ^a   Lanza, Donald C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL SINUS; FRONTAL SINUSITIS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOCELE; NOSE SEPTUM; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; SUCTION;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL SINUS; FRONTAL SINUSITIS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOCELE; NASAL SEPTUM; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUCTION; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033162317     PISSN: 10506586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2500/105065899782102836     Document Type: Article

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