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Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis is a chronic inflammatory condition of the upper airways and is not a simple disease of ostiomeatal complex occlusion.
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Dalgorf, D.M., Harvey, R.J. (2016). The Frontal Sinus and Nasal Polyps. In: Kountakis, S., Senior, B., Draf, W. (eds) The Frontal Sinus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48523-1_15
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