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Nasal polyps and sinusitis in children with cystic fibrosis.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

A. B. Drake-Lee*
Affiliation:
Honorary Senior Lecturer in Rhinology, The Institute of Laryngology and Otology, Grays Inn Road, London WCI
D. W. Morgan
Affiliation:
The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London
*
A. B. Drake-Lee, ENT Department, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TH.

Abstract

Eighteen children suffering from cystic fibrosis and nasal polyps were studied. Two patients presented with nasal polyps at two years of age; the remaining patients had an initial polypectomy at any age up to fifteen years (mean age of seven and a half years). There were no obvious correlations between the cultures of the sinus washouts and the corresponding sputum samples. Organisms were only grown from five of the fifteen wash outs and from nine of the sputum samples. The patients with severe polyposis were not obviously more atopic.

Type
Main Articles
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1989

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