Open AccessModified Lund Mackay Postoperative Endoscopy Score for defining inflammatory burden in chronic rhinosinusitis
Author(s) -
Kornkiat Snidvongs,
Dustin Dalgorf,
Larry Kalish,
Raymond Sacks,
Eleanor Pratt,
Richard J. Harvey
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
rhinology (amsterdam. online)/rhinology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.275
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1996-8604
pISSN - 0300-0729
DOI - 10.4193/rhino13.056
Subject(s) - medicine , chronic rhinosinusitis , endoscopy , nose , sinusitis , visual analogue scale , functional endoscopic sinus surgery , prospective cohort study , paranasal sinuses , surgery
The Lund Mackay Postoperative Endoscopy Score (LMES) for chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a poor measure of the patient experience. A proposed Modified Lund Mackay Postoperative Endoscopy Score (MLMES) aims to better describe the inflammatory burden in CRS.