Preoperative diagnosis of allergic fungal sinusitis

Laryngoscope

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 688-694

  Dhiwakar, Muthuswamy ^a   Thakar, Alok ^a   Bahadur, Sudhir ^a   Sarkar, Chitra ^a   Banerji, Uma ^a   Handa, Kumut Kumar ^a   Chhabra, Sunil Kumar ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b Patel Chest Institute   (India)

Author keywords

Aspergillosis; Computerized tomography; Fungi; Immunoglobulin E; Sinusitis; X ray

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ETHMOID SINUS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOSIS; POLYPOSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUSITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASPERGILLOSIS; ETHMOID SINUSITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NASAL POLYPS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037385828     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200304000-00020     Document Type: Article

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