Surgical outcomes of drillout procedures for complex frontal sinus pathology

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 927-931

  Batra, Pete S ^a   Cannady, Steven B ^a   Lanza, Donald C ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b St Anthony's Carillon Outpatient Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic frontal sinusitis; Draf III; Endoscopic modified Lothrop; Sinonasal neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FRONTAL SINUSITIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MUCOCELE; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FRONTAL SINUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247844454     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31803dd2ee     Document Type: Article

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