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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Main Authors:	van Zanten, Arthur RH, Dixon, J Mark, Nipshagen, Martine D, de Bree, Remco, Girbes, Armand RJ, Polderman, Kees H
Format:	Artigo
Language:	Inglês
Published:	BioMed Central 2005
Subjects:	Research
Online Access:	https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1297630/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16277722 https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc3805
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Hospital-acquired sinusitis is a common cause of fever of unknown origin in orotracheally intubated critically ill patients

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