Nasal eosinophilia can predict bronchial hyperresponsiveness in persistent rhinitis: Evidence for united airways disease concept

American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 120-124

  Canbaz, Pelin ^a   Üskudar Teke, Havva ^a   Aksu, Kurtulus ^a   Keren, Metin ^a   Gulbas, Zafer ^a   Kurt, Emel ^a  

^a ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHACHOLINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPY; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOSE DISEASE; NOSE EOSINOPHILIA; NOSE SECRETION; NOSE SMEAR; PERENNIAL RHINITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRICK TEST; PROVOCATION TEST; RHINOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TEST;

ADULT; BRONCHIAL HYPERREACTIVITY; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; CELL COUNT; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARANASAL SINUSES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; SKIN TESTS;

EID: 79953239986     PISSN: 19458924     EISSN: 19458932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2500/ajra.2011.25.3574     Document Type: Article

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