The asthma-rhinitis association: Between the clinical hypothesis and the scientific theory

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 191-193

  Passalacqua, Giovanni ^a   Canonica, Giorgio W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFLAMMATION; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; RISK FACTOR; SINUSITIS; THEORY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; HAY FEVER; PERENNIAL RHINITIS;

ASTHMA; HUMANS; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL;

EID: 0038659357     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-003-0033-6     Document Type: Note

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