Bacteriology in Patients with Chronic Sinusitis who have been Medically and Surgically Treated
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Bacteriology in patients with chronic sinusitis who have been medically and surgically treated.
Chronic sinusitis is a disease that afflicts a significant percentage of the population and causes considerable long-term morbidity. The common use of multiple broad-spectrum oral antibiotics and endoscopic sinus surgery to treat this condition may alter the pathogenes that promote persistence of chronic sinusitis. Forty-eight culture-positive patients with chronic sinusitis who had been medica...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ear, Nose & Throat Journal
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0145-5613,1942-7522
DOI: 10.1177/014556130408301217