Improving the detection of fungi in eosinophilic mucin: Seeing what we could not see before

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (United States)

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 943-949

  Guo, Canting ^a   Ghadersohi, Saied ^a   Kephart, Gail M ^b   Laine, Roger A ^c   Sherris, David A ^a   Kita, Hirohita ^b   Ponikau, Jens U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CRS; Eosinophil; Fungi; GMS; Gomori methenamine silver; Rhinosinusitis; Sinusitis

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; DYE; EOSIN; GOMORI METHENAMINE SILVER; HEMATOXYLIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E ANTIBODY; MUCIN; TRYPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; COLORING AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; METHENAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLERGIC DISEASE; ALLERGIC FUNGAL SINUSITIS; ALTERNARIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EOSINOPHIL; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL SINUSITIS; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MUCUS; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROLOGY; SKIN TEST; STAINING; SURGICAL PATIENT; TISSUE SECTION; CHEMISTRY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLORING AGENTS; EOSINOPHILS; FUNGI; HUMANS; METHENAMINE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCINS; MUCUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 84872012384     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599812451010     Document Type: Article

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