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Outcomes After Frontal Sinus Surgery

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Assessing results in the treatment of the frontal sinus is difficult in that objective and subjective outcomes must be considered, and often, do not correlate with one another.

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  1. Weill Cornell Medical College, 1305 York Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY, 10021, USA

    Michael G. Stewart MD, MPH & Aaron Pearlman MD

  2. Department of Otolaryngology-HNS, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, NYPH-WMCCU, 525 East 68th Street, Box 101, New York, NY, 10021, USA

    Michael G. Stewart MD, MPH

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  1. Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, Georgia, USA

    Stilianos E. Kountakis

  2. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

    Brent A. Senior

  3. Fulda, Hessen, Germany

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Stewart, M.G., Pearlman, A. (2016). Outcomes After Frontal Sinus Surgery. In: Kountakis, S., Senior, B., Draf, W. (eds) The Frontal Sinus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48523-1_30

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