Short-course oral steroids alone for chronic rhinosinusitis

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2016, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Head, Karen ^a   Chong, Lee Yee ^a   Hopkins, Claire ^b   Philpott, Carl ^c   Burton, Martin J ^a   Schilder, Anne G M ^d  

^a UK COCHRANE CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; PLACEBO; STEROID;

CHRONIC RHINOSINUSITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBASE; FACIAL PRESSURE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MEDLINE; MOOD DISORDER; NOSE DISEASE; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; NOSE POLYP; ODOR; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTER; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CHRONIC DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; NASAL POLYPS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RHINITIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINUSITIS; TIME FACTOR;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; NASAL POLYPS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RHINITIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINUSITIS; STEROIDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84964412525     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD011991.pub2     Document Type: Review

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