Chronic invasive fungal sinusitis associated with intranasal drug use
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New treatment for invasive fungal sinusitis: three cases of chronic invasive fungal sinusitis treated with surgery and voriconazole.
Invasive fungal sinusitis is a relatively rare disease and can be divided into acute fulminant, chronic, and granulomatous invasive fungal sinusitis. The conventional treatment is radical surgery combined with systemic amphotericin B administration, but the poor prognosis and unestablished treatment options require a better therapeutic strategy. We report three cases of chronic invasive fungal ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Laryngoscope
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0023-852X
DOI: 10.1002/lary.25429