Nasal cytologies - Impact of sampling method, repeated sampling and interobserver variability

Rhinology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 215-220

  Deutschle, Tom ^a   Friemel, Ellen ^a   Starnecker, Karin ^a   Riechelmann, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interobserver variability; Nasal cytology; Nasal lavage; Quantitative analysis; Repeated sampling

Indexed keywords

CD45 ANTIGEN; EOSINOPHIL PEROXIDASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL COUNT; CELL VIABILITY; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; GRASS POLLEN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDIVIDUALIZATION; NOSE ALLERGY; NOSE SMEAR; OBSERVER VARIATION; POLLEN ALLERGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NASAL CAVITY; NASAL LAVAGE FLUID; NASAL MUCOSA; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 25844510178     PISSN: 03000729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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