Preliminary findings from a prospective, randomized trial of two palatal operations for sleep-disordered breathing

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 315-323

  Terris, David J ^a   Coker, Joan F ^b   Thomas, Adrian J ^b   Chavoya, Martha ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE PLUS PARACETAMOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING DISORDER; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PALATOPLASTY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SNORING; SOMNOLENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; UVULOPALATOPHARYNGOPLASTY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; LARYNGOSCOPY; LASER SURGERY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SOFT PALATE;

ADULT; CATHETER ABLATION; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPY; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PALATE, SOFT; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SNORING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036781771     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mhn.2002.128345     Document Type: Article

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