Effects of sulfurous, salty, bromic, iodic thermal water nasal irrigations in nonallergic chronic rhinosinusitis: A prospective, randomized, double-blind, clinical, and cytological study

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 235-239

  Ottaviano, Giancarlo ^a   Marioni, Gino ^a   Staffieri, Claudia ^a   Giacomelli, Luciano ^a   Marchese Ragona, Rosario ^a   Bertolin, Andy ^a   Staffieri, Alberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Otolaryngology Section   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMIDE; ISOTONIC SOLUTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFUR; SULFUROUS SALTY BROMIC IODIC THERMAL WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BURNING SENSATION; CILIATED EPITHELIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENDOSCOPY; EPISTAXIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NASAL LAVAGE; NOSE AIRWAY RESISTANCE; NOSE IRRITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHINOMANOMETRY; RHINOSINUSITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BROMIDES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IODIDES; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINERAL WATERS; NASAL LAVAGE; NASAL MUCOSA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINITIS; RHINOMANOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINUSITIS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SULFUR; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955523084     PISSN: 01960709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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