European position paper on rhinosinusitis and nasal polyps (EPOS) 2012: Clinical update
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34631/sporl.5Keywords:
EPOS, guidelines, rhinitis, sinusitisAbstract
The first EPOS document, published in 2005, was revised in 2007 and March 2012. This article aims to do a critical revision of the main differences from the previous document and summarize the recommendations of EPOS 2012 for clinical practice. Important changes were introduced, including the criteria for diagnosis of rhinosinusitis in children, temporal and etiological classification of acute rhinosinusitis, control criteria of chronic rhinosinusitis, complications of acute and chronic rhinosinusitis, nasal irrigationin acute rhinosinusitis, antibiotic treatment in chronic rhinosinusitis and adenoidectomy in children with chronic rhinosinusitis.
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