Fungal rhinosinusitis: A categorization and definitional schema addressing current controversies

Laryngoscope

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1809-1818

  Chakrabarti, Arunaloke ^a   Denning, David W ^b   Ferguson, Berrylin J ^c   Ponikau, Jens ^d   Buzina, Walter ^e   Kita, Hirohito ^f   Marple, Bradley ^g   Panda, Naresh ^a   Vlaminck, Stephan ^h   Kauffmann Lacroix, Catherine ⁱ   Das, Ashim ^a   Singh, Paramjeet ^a   Taj Aldeen, Saad J ^j   Kantarcioglu, A Serda ^k   Handa, Kumud K ^l   Gupta, Ashok ^a   Thungabathra, M ^a   Shivaprakash, Mandya R ^a   Bal, Amanjit ^a   Fothergill, Annette ^m   Radotra, Bishan D ^a   more..

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

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

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^f MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h Hopital General Saint Jean   (Belgium)

ⁱ POITIERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^j HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^k ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^l ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^m University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Allergy; Aspergillus; Dematiaceous fungi; Fungal sinusitis; Zygomycetes

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLOSIS; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL RHINOSINUSITIS; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GRANULOMATOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MYCETOMA; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NOSE MUCOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHINOSINUSITIS;

EOSINOPHILS; HUMANS; INFARCTION; MUCINS; MYCOSES; PARANASAL SINUSES; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS;

EID: 70349584616     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20520     Document Type: Review

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