Acute pharyngitis, or sore throat, is a painful inflammation affecting the pharyngeal walls, tonsils, palate, and uvula. It stems from various infectious …
Tonsillitis is an inflammation of the tonsils, primarily caused by viral or bacterial infections.
The most common viral causes of tonsillitis include …
Treatment strategies for tonsillitis include the following:
For viral tonsillitis, outpatient supportive management is the primary approach, involving …
Epistaxis, or a nosebleed, is caused by the rupture of small, distended vessels in the mucous membrane of any nose area.
Possible causes include trauma, …
This protocol describes noninvasive sampling of undisturbed upper airway mucosal lining fluid. It also details the extraction procedure used prior to the …
The methods of nasal absorption (NA) and bronchial absorption (BA) use synthetic absorptive matrices (SAM) to absorb the mucosal lining fluid (MLF) of the …
