Eosinophilic bacterial chronic rhinosinusitis

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2036-2040

  Ferguson, Berrylin J ^a,b   Seethala, Raja ^a   Wood, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Allergic fungal sinusitis; Bacteria; Eosinophil; Eosinophilic chronic rhinosinusitis; Fungi; Superantigen

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHINOSINUSITIS; SUPERINFECTION;

BACTERIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FUNGI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS;

EID: 35848944321     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e318123f2d7     Document Type: Article

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