Nose blowing propels nasal fluid into the paranasal sinuses

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 387-391

  Gwaltney Jr , Jack M ^a   Hendley, J Owen ^a   Phillips, C Douglas ^a   Bass, Cameron R ^b   Mygind, Niels ^c   Winther, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c University of Virginia ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMON COLD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLOW RATE; FLUID FLOW; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXILLARY SINUS; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE MUCUS; PARANASAL SINUS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNEEZING; VISCOSITY;

ADULT; CONTRAST MEDIA; COUGH; HUMANS; MANOMETRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NASAL LAVAGE FLUID; NASAL MUCOSA; NASOPHARYNX; PARANASAL SINUSES; PRESSURE; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SNEEZING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034053851     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313661     Document Type: Article

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