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Chronic Sinus Disease and Asthma

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Bronchial Asthma

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For many years the upper and lower airway of humans have been regarded as anatomically and fundamentally separate and distinct with little or no relationship. In this chapter, I will attempt to show with data from experimental animal and human studies that relationships do exist between the upper and lower airway; that disease of one may affect function of the other; and that appropriate therapy of one part of the respiratory tract may result in improvement in the state of the other.

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Slavin, R.G. (1994). Chronic Sinus Disease and Asthma. In: Gershwin, M.E., Halpern, G.M. (eds) Bronchial Asthma. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0297-4_23

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