Complications of surgery for nasal polyposis and chronic rhinosinusitis: The results of a national audit in England and Wales

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1494-1499

  Hopkins, Claire ^a   Browne, John P ^a,b   Slack, Rob ^c   Lund, Valerie J ^d   Topham, John ^e   Reeves, Barnaby C ^b   Copley, Lynn P ^a   Brown, Peter ^f   Van Der Meulen, Jan H P ^a,b  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL NATIONAL THROAT NOSE AND EAR HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL SUSSEX COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f MILTON KEYNES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Nasal polyposis; Rhinosinusitis; Risk factors; Sinonasal surgery; Surgical complications

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIGATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOSE POLYP; ORBIT DISEASE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REOPERATION; RHINOSINUSITIS; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; ENGLAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NASAL POLYPS; ORBITAL DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SINUSITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WALES;

EID: 33746799362     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000230399.24306.50     Document Type: Article

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