Adult chronic rhinosinusitis: Definitions, diagnosis, epidemiology, and pathophysiology

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2003, Pages

  Benninger, Michael S ^b   Ferguson, Berrylin J ^c   Hadley, James A ^c   Hamilos, Daniel L ^c   Jacobs, Michael ^c   Kennedy, David W ^c   Lanza, Donald C ^c   Marple, Bradley F ^c   Osguthorpe, J David ^c   Stankiewicz, James A ^a   Anon, Jack ^c   Denneny, James ^c   Emanuel, Ivor ^c   Levine, Howard ^c  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGY TEST; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MUCOCILIARY CLEARANCE; NOMENCLATURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENICITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RHINOMANOMETRY; RHINOMETRY; RHINOSINUSITIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UNITED STATES; ANOSMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; FACE PAIN; FATIGUE; FEVER; FUNGUS; HALITOSIS; HEADACHE; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; OTALGIA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARANASAL SINUS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TOOTH PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MUCIN; STEROID;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141927992     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0194-5998(03)01397-4     Document Type: Review

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