Rigid nasal endoscopy versus sinus puncture and aspiration for microbiologic documentation of acute bacterial maxillary sinusitis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1668-1675

  Talbot, G H ^a   Kennedy, D W ^b   Scheld, W M ^c   Granito, K ^a  

^a SANOFI   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLEEDING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXILLA SINUSITIS; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MORBIDITY; NOSE; NOSE INJURY; PAIN; PARANASAL SINUS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAXILLARY SINUS; MAXILLARY SINUSITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PUNCTURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035889549     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/323813     Document Type: Article

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