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Chronic Frontal Rhinosinusitis: Diagnosis and Management

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Frontal rhinosinusitis is the most challenging to treat given its dependence on the health of other sinuses and need for demanding surgery.

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  1. Section of Otolaryngology, Department of Surgery, Lakeridge Health Oshawa, 117 King Street East, 5th floor, Oshawa, ON, L1H 1B9, Canada

    Artur Gevorgyan

  2. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, A2-234, Amsterdam, AZ 1105, The Netherlands

    Wytske J. Fokkens

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Gevorgyan, A., Fokkens, W.J. (2016). Chronic Frontal Rhinosinusitis: Diagnosis and Management. In: Kountakis, S., Senior, B., Draf, W. (eds) The Frontal Sinus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48523-1_7

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