Role of adenoids and adenoiditis in children with allergy and otitis media

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 460-464

  Marseglia, Gian Luigi ^a   Poddighe, Dimitri ^b   Caimmi, Davide ^b   Marseglia, Alessia ^b   Caimmi, Silvia ^b   Ciprandi, Giorgio ^b   Klersy, Catherine ^b   Pagella, Fabio ^b   Castellazzi, Anna Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOID; ADENOIDECTOMY; ADENOTONSILLECTOMY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALLERGY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BIOFILM; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; ONSET AGE; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RHINOSINUSITIS; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; TONSILLITIS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADENOIDS; CHILD; EUSTACHIAN TUBE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; RISK FACTORS; TONSILLITIS;

EID: 70350164553     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-009-0068-4     Document Type: Review

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