Treatment of failed frontal sinus obliteration

Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-18

  Wynn, Rhoda ^a   Vaughan, Winston C ^a  

^a California Sinus Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Frontal sinus; Sinusitis; Surgical failure

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STEROID;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FRONTAL SINUSITIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 33745506937     PISSN: 10431810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otot.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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