Upper airway and soft tissue anatomy in normal subjects and patients with sleep-disordered breathing: Significance of the lateral pharyngeal walls

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 152, Issue 5 I, 1995, Pages 1673-1689

  Schwab, Richard J ^a   Gupta, Krishanu B ^b   Gefter, Warren B ^b   Metzger, Louis J ^b   Hoffman, Eric A ^b   Pack, Allan I ^b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MANDIBLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHARYNX; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SNORING; SOFT TISSUE; TONGUE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

EID: 0028828708     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.152.5.7582313     Document Type: Article

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