Acoustic rhinometry findings in patients with mild apnea

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 475-480

  Houser, Steven M ^a,b   Mamikoglu, Bulent ^a,b   Aquino, Benjamin F ^a,b   Moinuddin, Rizwan ^a,b   Corey, Jacquelynne P ^a,b  

^a Section of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECONGESTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOSE CONGESTION; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHINOMETRY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; AGED; HAY FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE CAVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERENNIAL RHINITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; NASAL OBSTRUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, SEASONAL; RHINOMETRY, ACOUSTIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES;

EID: 0036559224     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhn.2002.124848     Document Type: Article

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