Chronic rhinosinusitis: Epidemiology and medical management

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 693-707

  Hamilos, Daniel L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

epidemiology; medical management; nasal polyposis; Rhinosinusitis; sinusitis; treatment

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BUDESONIDE; CARBOCISTEINE; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CICLESONIDE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUTICASONE FUROATE; FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE; GENTAMICIN; IRRITANT AGENT; MACROLIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; MOMETASONE FUROATE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; ROXITHROMYCIN; TERBINAFINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZILEUTON;

AIR POLLUTION; ALLERGIC FUNGAL RHINOSINUSITIS; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ASTHMA; BIOFILM; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS; CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS WITH NASAL POLYPOSIS; CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS WITHOUT NASAL POLYPOSIS; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CILIARY DYSKINESIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DESENSITIZATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FUNGAL SINUSITIS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GEOGRAPHY; HEREDITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INNATE IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTENSIVE CARE; LARYNGOPHARYNGEAL REFLUX; MOULD; NASAL LAVAGE; NOSE POLYP; PASSIVE SMOKING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHINOSINUSITIS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; INFANT; NASAL POLYPS; PREVALENCE; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; SINUSITIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053561001     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: 10976825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2011.08.004     Document Type: Review

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