Ciliary count in chronic suppurative otitis media: Comparative quantitative study between mucosal and squamous types using scanning electron microscopy and image analysis

Journal of Laryngology and Otology

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 343-347

  Atef, Ahmed ^b,c   Ayad, Essam Ezat ^a  

^a Depts Otorhinolaryngology Pathol

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cilia; Image Processing, Computer Assisted; Microscopy, Electron Scanning Transmission; Otitis Media, Suppurative

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA; CILIATED EPITHELIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARDRUM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MIDDLE EAR MUCOSA; OTITIS MEDIA; OTOSCLEROSIS; PATIENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SQUAMOUS EPITHELIUM; UNIVERSITY;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLESTEATOMA, MIDDLE EAR; CHRONIC DISEASE; CILIA; EAR, MIDDLE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; OTITIS MEDIA, SUPPURATIVE; OTOSCLEROSIS;

EID: 2942610559     PISSN: 00222151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/002221504323086516     Document Type: Article

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