A comparative study between ciliary count and the degree of opacity of paranasal sinus CT scans in chronic sinusitis pre and post FESS

Journal of Laryngology and Otology

Volumn 119, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 950-954

  Bassiouny, Ahmed ^a   Abd El Raouf, Mahmoud ^a   Atef, Ahmed ^a,c   Nasr, Safaa ^a   Talaat, Soha ^b   Nasr, Magdy ^a   Ayad, Essam ^b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cilia; Endoscopic Surgical Procedures; Scanners; Scanning Electron Microscopy; Sinusitis; Tomography, Computed

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; CILIARY BODY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PARANASAL SINUS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CILIA; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; PARANASAL SINUSES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SINUSITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 29244435342     PISSN: 00222151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002221505775010643     Document Type: Article

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