The role of fungi in diseases of the nose and sinuses

American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 351-358

  Soler, Zachary M ^a   Schlosser, Rodney J ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUTICASONE; ITRACONAZOLE; MUCIN; PREDNISOLONE;

ALLERGIC FUNGAL RHINOSINUSITIS; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BENT AND KUHN CRITERIA; CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; EOSINOPHILIA; FACE PAIN; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL SINUSITIS; FUNGUS BALL; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HUMAN; IMMUNE STATUS; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NOSE CONGESTION; NOSE INFECTION; NOSE POLYP; NOSE SECRETION; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SMELLING DISORDER; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS;

ACETATES; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FUNGI; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; MYCOSES; PARANASAL SINUSES; QUINOLINES; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; STEROIDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866331047     PISSN: 19458924     EISSN: 19458932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2500/ajra.2012.26.3807     Document Type: Review

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