Acute sinusitis: Clinical manifestations and treatment approaches

Pediatric Annals

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-40

  Demuri, Gregory P ^a   Wald, Ellen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BUDESONIDE; CEFDINIR; CEFOTAXIME; CEFPODOXIME PROXETIL; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; SULTAMICILLIN;

ABSCESS; ACUTE BACTERIAL SINUSITIS; ACUTE SINUSITIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CAVERNOUS SINUS THROMBOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EIKENELLA CORRODENS; EMPYEMA; EPIDURAL EMPYEMA; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; MENINGITIS; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NEURITIS; ORBIT ABSCESS; ORBIT CELLULITIS; ORBIT EDEMA; OSTEITIS; PARANASAL SINUS DRAINAGE; PATHOGENESIS; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAGITTAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP C; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; SUBPERIOSTEUM ABSCESS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; HUMANS; PARANASAL SINUSES; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SINUSITIS;

EID: 77950404986     PISSN: 00904481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/00904481-20091222-04     Document Type: Article

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