Complications of acute infective rhinosinusitis: Experience from a developing country

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 540-544

  Ali, A ^a   Kurien, Mary ^a   Mathews, S S ^a   Mathew, J ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Acute rhinosinusitis; Infective rhinosinusitis; Rhinosinusitis complications

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN C; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ASIA; BACTEROIDES; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENTEROBACTER; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENINGITIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; ORBIT ABSCESS; ORBIT DISEASE; OSTEOMYELITIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREVOTELLA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RHINOSINUSITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 26044465867     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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