CHAPTER 7 Pharmacotherapy of Allergic Rhinitis There is little doubt that the best treatment of inhalant allergy is avoidance, whenever possible, as this prevents triggering of the allergic response. Unfortunately,…
CHAPTER 10 Blending Skin Testing and In Vitro Testing in Clinical Practice It is a basic axiom of the field that the diagnosis of allergy is made on clinical grounds….
CHAPTER 9 Standardized Extracts In attempting to find a more consistent and accurate way to measure the strength of allergy extracts, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has, in its…
CHAPTER 1 The Place of Allergy in Clinical Medicine The importance of allergy as a vital element in clinical medicine has become strongly established only in recent years. The burgeoning…
30 Prosthetic Rehabilitation: Intraoral and Extraoral Prostheses Betsy K. Davis and David J. Reisberg Core Messages • Defects of the maxillofacial complex are due to tumor surgery, a congenital condition,…
15 Ethmoid and Anterior Skull Base Neoplasms Gilad Horowitz, Dan M. Fliss, and Ziv Gil Core Messages • Tumors of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses account for only 3%…
29 Surgical Reconstruction Oleg Militsakh and Jason Jay Miller Core Messages • Oncologic surgery is a prominent modality in the treatment of head and neck cancers. • The majority of…
27 Xerostomia and Hyposalivation in Patients with Cancer Crispian Scully and Joel B. Epstein Core Messages • Hyposalivation has a major effect on patients with head and neck cancer during…
33 Endoscopic Approaches to the Anterior Skull Base Edward D. McCoul, Theodore H. Schwartz, and Vijay Anand Core Messages • Endoscopic endonasal approaches offer a minimal-access but maximally invasive alternative…
24 Benign Aggressive Jaw Tumors Eric R. Carlson and G. E. Ghali Core Messages • Although slow-growing, benign odontogenic tumors can be as destructive and life threatening as the more…
