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Hospital-acquired sinusitis is a common cause of fever of unknown origin in orotracheally intubated critically ill patients

INTRODUCTION: Sinusitis is a well recognised but insufficiently understood complication of critical illness. It has been linked to nasotracheal intubation, but its occurrence after orotracheal intubation is less clear. We studied the incidence of sinusitis in patients with fever of unknown origin (F...

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Autores principales: van Zanten, Arthur RH, Dixon, J Mark, Nipshagen, Martine D, de Bree, Remco, Girbes, Armand RJ, Polderman, Kees H
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1297630/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16277722
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc3805