Nasal provocation testing as an international standard for evaluation of allergic and nonallergic rhinitis

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 512-516

  Gosepath, Jan ^a,c   Amedee, Ronald G ^b   Mann, Wolf J ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic rhinometry; Nasal provocation testing; Rhinomanometry; Symptom sores

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; AUDIOMETRY; CHEMOSIS; CONJUNCTIVITIS; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DYSPNEA; GEOMETRY; HEARING; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL STANDARD UNIT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NASAL PRURITUS; NOSE AIRFLOW; NOSE MUCOSA; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; NOSE PROVOCATION TEST; NOSE SECRETION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHINOMANOMETRY; RHINOMETRY; SAFETY; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SNEEZING; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; URTICARIA; VASOMOTOR RHINITIS;

ALLERGENS; HUMANS; NASAL MUCOSA; NASAL PROVOCATION TESTS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PULMONARY VENTILATION; RHINITIS; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RHINOMANOMETRY; RHINOMETRY, ACOUSTIC;

EID: 14744278285     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MLG.0000149682.56426.6B     Document Type: Review

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