nasopharynx
A diagnosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma was made.
Nineteen of the patients had been treated for nasopharyngeal cancer.
The nasopharyngeal specimen was taken with a sterile cotton swab.

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nasopharyngeal
They also pointed out that patterns of cooling, as measured by tympanic, nasopharyngeal, and rectal temperatures, are variable.
Bottle feeding can be introduced during the phase of nasopharyngeal intubation, and this can be withdrawn for gradually increasing periods.
From each family member, a nasopharyngeal swab was obtained at initial home visit and followed by 9 further swabs at 4-week intervals.
In our model, the temperature in the nasopharynx corresponds closely with that of the brain, so references will be to nasopharyngeal measurements.
Alternatively, nasopharyngeal isolates of healthy children may be used to gauge the pattern of pneumococcal antibiotic-resistance in local populations.
Nasopharyngeal swabs were taken from pupils 6 and 11 months following intervention.
Weekly numbers of nasopharyngeal aspirates collected and laboratory findings are enumerated.
Earlier studies reported a higher nasopharyngeal carriage with both vaccine serotypes and non-vaccine serotypes than in adults.
In studies of military recruits in 1974-1975, the meningococcal nasopharyngeal carriage rate was reported to be 13.7 %.
Previous studies reported that viral excretion in faeces was two orders of magnitude greater than in nasopharyngeal aspirate specimens.
Carriage is detected by culturing from a nasopharyngeal swab, but the sensitivity of this technique is low and varies between studies.
Studies of carriage, detected by culturing samples from a nasopharyngeal swab, can therefore provide important insights into the transmission dynamics of these organisms.
As inflammation and infection are very common in the upper respiratory tract, mild hyperplasia is common in normal nasopharyngeal epithelium, and is a reversible mild lesion.
Lack of utility of serotyping multiple colonies for detection of simultaneous nasopharyngeal carriage of different pneumococcal serotypes.
True nasopharyngeal absorption of zolmitriptan following administration of zolmitriptan nasal spray.
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