Why Rudolph's nose is red: Observational study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 345, Issue 7888, 2012, Pages

  Ince, Can ^a   Van Kuijen, Anne Marijevan ^b   Milstein, Dan M J ^b   Yur̈ük, Koray ^b   Folkow, Lars P ^c   Fokkens, Wytske J ^b   Blix, Arnoldus S ^c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY FLOW; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROVASCULATURE; NASAL MICROCIRCULATION; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; NOSE DISEASE; NOSE MUCOSA; NOSE POLYP; NOSE REDNESS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINDEER; TURBINATE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ADULT; ANATOMY, COMPARATIVE; ANIMALS; COLD TEMPERATURE; COLOR; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MICROVESSELS; NASAL MUCOSA; NASAL POLYPS; REINDEER; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TURBINATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872062795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.e8311     Document Type: Article

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