Possible voice or speech changes after velar surgery for snoring

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 153-156

  Brosch, Sibylle ^a   Pirsig, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHETER ABLATION; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; LARYNX DISORDER; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORAL SURGERY; PALATE; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SNORING; SPEECH DISORDER; STENOSIS; TONSILLECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVULOPALATOPHARYNGOPLASTY;

EID: 0035012734     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00020840-200106000-00006     Document Type: Review

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