Feasibility of balloon sinuplasty in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis: The Graz experience

Rhinology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1-8

  Tomazic, Peter Valentin ^a   Stammberger, Heinz ^a   Braun, Hannes ^a   Habermann, Walter ^a   Schmid, Christoph ^b   Hammer, Georg Philipp ^a   Koele, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b HANUSCH HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

Balloon sinuplasty; Chronic rhinosinusitis; Failure rate; Feasibility; Success rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878509295     PISSN: 03000729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4193/Rhino12.194     Document Type: Article

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