Does tongue size differ between patients with and without sleep-disordered breathing?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1552-1555

  Do, Katherine L ^b   Ferreyra, Henry ^b   Healy, John F ^a   Davidson, Terence M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Portable sleep study; Sleep disordered breathing; Tongue

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TONGUE;

EID: 0033812514     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200009000-00027     Document Type: Article

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