Tosse, uma visão do otorrinolaringologista.

dc.contributor.authorBretan, Onivaldo [UNESP]
dc.contributor.institutionUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-27T11:17:53Z
dc.date.available2014-05-27T11:17:53Z
dc.date.issued1993-07-01
dc.description.abstractPersistent cough leads individuals to seek for medical assistance. Clinical investigation, however, may not reveal any alteration within the clinic's sphere of action. Often enough, some professionals treat the symptom as a disease, introducing several medicines, unsuccessfully. The author's experience, as an otolaryngologist, allows to state that many of these professionals ignore the upper aerodigestive tract as a cough-generator site. The present work discusses the alterations on the mentioned tract, which may provoke the cough reflex, reviewing, initially, the cough mechanism and the localization of the specific receptors. Cough is produce by stimulus at the receptor level or far from it. In upper and lower parts of the aerodigestive tract secretions may run to several directions. Secretion from the paranasal sinus is a frequent cause of cough. Acute sinusitis may occur insidiously bringing about the chronification of the inflammation with cough being the only great apparent symptom. Nasal and dental alterations favor sinusal infection. Signs and symptoms, even if minimum, may be detected through an accurate anamnesis. Nasal allergy, laryngitis, post nasal dripping and septal deviation may also produce cough. The ORL examination is, therefore, imperative, and no radiologic examination can substitute for it. An inadequate treatment, particularly of the sinusitis, may bring about a worsening and extension of the initial condition.en
dc.format.extent151-154
dc.identifier.citationRevista da Associacao Medica Brasileira (1992), v. 39, n. 3, p. 151-154, 1993.
dc.identifier.issn0104-4230
dc.identifier.lattes7092321554653628
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-0027623016
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11449/64384
dc.language.isopor
dc.relation.ispartofRevista da Associação Médica Brasileira (1992)
dc.relation.ispartofjcr0.736
dc.relation.ispartofsjr0,265
dc.rights.accessRightsAcesso restrito
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectcoughing
dc.subjecthuman
dc.subjectotorhinolaryngology
dc.subjectpathophysiology
dc.subjectsinusitis
dc.subjectCough
dc.subjectEnglish Abstract
dc.subjectHuman
dc.subjectOtolaryngology
dc.subjectSinusitis
dc.titleTosse, uma visão do otorrinolaringologista.pt
dc.title.alternativeCough: an otorhinolaryngologist's viewen
dc.typeArtigo
unesp.author.lattes7092321554653628
unesp.campusUniversidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Faculdade de Medicina, Botucatupt

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