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Identification of chronic rhinosinusitis phenotypes using cluster analysis.
International forum of allergy & rhinology - 1 May 2015
Soler Zachary M, Hyer J Madison, Ramakrishnan Viswanathan, Smith Timothy L, Mace Jess, Rudmik Luke, Schlosser Rodney J
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BACKGROUND: Current clinical classifications of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) have been largely defined based upon preconceived notions of factors thought to be important, such as polyp or eosinophil status. Unfortunately, these classification systems have little correlation with symptom severity or treatment outcomes. Unsupervised clustering can be used to identify phenotypic subgroups of CRS patients, describe...
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