The completely opacified frontal or sphenoid sinus: A marker of more severe disease in chronic rhinosinusitis?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2123-2126

  Bhattacharyya, Neil ^a,b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Division of Otolaryngology   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic rhinosinusitis; Computed tomography; Diagnosis; Endoscopic sinus surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC RHINITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHINOSINUSITIS; SPHENOID SINUS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL SINUS; FRONTAL SINUSITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; RADIOGRAPHY; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL SINUS; FRONTAL SINUSITIS; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINITIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPHENOID SINUS; SPHENOID SINUSITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644801129     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000183229.20452.65     Document Type: Article

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