Nasal polyps: Heredity, allergies, and environmental and occupational exposure

Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 58-63

  Alexiou, Alexis ^a   Sourtzi, Panayota ^a   Dimakopoulou, Konstantina ^b   Manolis, Evangelos ^c   Velonakis, Emmanuel ^a  

^a Faculty of Nursing   (Greece)

^b Clinic of Social and Family Medicine   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Allergy; Case control study; Heredity; Nasal polyposis; Occupational or environmental exposure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENDER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HAY FEVER; HEREDITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOSE POLYP; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GREECE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL POLYPS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79951892498     PISSN: 19160216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/7070.2010.100056     Document Type: Article

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