Sphenoid sinus fungus ball: Our experience

American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 276-280

  Pagella, Fabio ^a   Pusateri, Alessandro ^a   Matti, Elina ^a   Giourgos, Georgios ^a   Cavanna, Caterina ^a   De Bernardi, Francesca ^b   Bignami, Maurizio ^b   Castelnuovo, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY; EPISTAXIS; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS BALL; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOSMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; PAECILOMYCES; PARASEPTAL SPHENOIDOTOMY; PARESTHESIA; PENICILLIUM; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RHINORRHEA; SPHENOID SINUS; SPHENOID SINUS FUNGUS BALL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSETHMOIDAL SPHENOIDOTOMY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CELL GROWTH PROCESSES; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL OBSTRUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; SPHENOID SINUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960458860     PISSN: 19458924     EISSN: 19458932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2500/ajra.2011.25.3639     Document Type: Article

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