Upper airway and soft tissue structural changes induced by CPAP in normal subjects

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 154, Issue 4 I, 1996, Pages 1106-1116

  Schwab, Richard J ^a   Pack, Allan I ^a   Gupta, Krishanu B ^a   Metzger, Louis J ^a   Oh, Eugene ^a   Getsy, Joanne E ^a,b   Hoffman, Eric A ^a,c   Gefter, Warren B ^a  

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

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHARYNX; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SOFT PALATE; SOFT TISSUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TONGUE;

EID: 0029859541     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.154.4.8887615     Document Type: Article

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