Tonsillectomy as a treatment of obstructive sleep apnea in adults with tonsillar hypertrophy

Laryngoscope

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1556-1559

  Verse, Thomas ^a,b   Kroker, Béatrice A ^a   Pirsig, Wolfgang ^a   Brosch, Sibylle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adults; Obstructive sleep apnea; Snoring; Tonsillar hypertrophy; Tonsillectomy

Indexed keywords

ADENOTONSILLECTOMY; ADULT; APNEA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; SNORING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 0033817437     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200009000-00029     Document Type: Article

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