The effects of sulfurous-arsenical-ferruginous thermal water nasal irrigation in wound healing after functional endoscopic sinus surgery for chronic rhinosinusitis: a prospective randomized study

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 223-229

  Staffieri, Alberto ^a   Marino, Filippo ^a   Staffieri, Claudia ^a   Giacomelli, Luciano ^a   D'Alessandro, Emiliano ^a   Maria Ferraro, Silvia ^a   Fedrazzoni, Umberto ^b   Marioni, Gino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Levico Spa   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC ACID; IRON; ISOTONIC SOLUTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFUROUS ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; ETHMOID SINUS; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAST CELL; NASAL BIOPSY; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NOSE IRRIGATION; NOSE MUCOSA; NOSE SURGERY; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASE; PATHOLOGIST; PLASMA CELL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHINOSINUSITIS; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARSENIC; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY; ETHMOID SINUS; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; ISOTONIC SOLUTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARANASAL SINUSES; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINUSITIS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFUR; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 45949098269     PISSN: 01960709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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