Pharyngeal suspension suture with Repose bone screw for obstructive sleep apnea

Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 395-401

  Woodson, B Tucker ^a   DeRowe, Ari ^b   Hawke, Michael ^c   Wenig, Barry ^d   Ross, E B ^e   Katsantonis, George P ^f   Mickelson, Samuel A ^g   Bonham, Robert E ^g   Benbadis, Selim ^h  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^e Meadowcrest Medical Center   (United States)

^f Park Central Institute   (United States)

^g Atlanta Ear Clinic   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORAL SURGERY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SIALOADENITIS; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SNORING; SOMNOLENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNX; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TONGUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034013874     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0194-5998(00)70055-6     Document Type: Article

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