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Assessment of International Frontal Sinus Anatomy Classification among senior residents through inter- and intra-rater reliability

Kholood Assiri, Ahmad Alroqi, Turki Aldrees and Sharif Almatrafi
Saudi Medical Journal May 2020, 41 (5) 466-472; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.5.25071
Kholood Assiri
From the Department of Otorhinolaryngology (Assiri, Alroqi), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Riyadh; and from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aldrees and Almatrafi), College of Medicine, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ahmad Alroqi
From the Department of Otorhinolaryngology (Assiri, Alroqi), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Riyadh; and from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aldrees and Almatrafi), College of Medicine, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Turki Aldrees
From the Department of Otorhinolaryngology (Assiri, Alroqi), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Riyadh; and from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aldrees and Almatrafi), College of Medicine, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Sharif Almatrafi
From the Department of Otorhinolaryngology (Assiri, Alroqi), King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Riyadh; and from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Aldrees and Almatrafi), College of Medicine, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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