Evaluation of pulmonary fungal diseases in patients with fungal rhino-sinusitis
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fungal involvement in patients with paranasal sinusitis
fungal involvement of the paranasal sinuses is frequently observed in the immunocompromised host and it can become lifethreatening if it is not diagnosed. definitive diagnosis is made by tissue biopsy and culture. in this study biopsy materials of maxillary, ethmoidal and frontal sinuses of 60 patients with clinical manifestation of sinusitis and no response to medical therapy were assessed by ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Egyptian Journal of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0422-7638
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcdt.2013.06.004