The value of Waters' projection for assessing maxillary sinus inflammatory disease

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 103-109

  Timmenga, Nicolaas ^a   Stegenga, Boudewijn ^a   Raghoebar, Gerry ^a   Van Hoogstraten, Jos ^a   Van Weissenbruch, Ranny ^a   Vissink, Arjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MAXILLA SINUSITIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOOTH RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MAXILLARY SINUSITIS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHY, DENTAL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036363075     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/moe.2002.120056     Document Type: Article

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