Chronic rhinosinusitis patients with polyps or polypoid mucosa have a greater burden of illness

American Journal of Rhinology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 19-26

  Banerji, Aleena ^a   Piccirillo, Jay F ^b   Thawley, Stanley E ^b   Levitt, Robert G ^b   Schechtman, Kenneth B ^b   Kramper, Maggie A ^b   Hamilos, Daniel L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergic rhinitis; Burden of illness; Chronic sinusitis; Nasal polyps; Outcomes; Rhinoscopy; Study

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; AZELASTINE; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CROMOGLYCATE DISODIUM; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACE PAIN; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOSMIA; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTRACUTANEOUS TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; NOSE POLYP; NOSE SECRETION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RATING SCALE; RHINOSINUSITIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL MUCOSA; NASAL POLYPS; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846907218     PISSN: 10506586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2500/ajr.2007.21.2979     Document Type: Article

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