Injection snoreplasty: Extended follow-up and new objective data

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 605-615

  Brietzke, Scott E ^a,b   Mair, Eric A ^a,b,c  

^a Walter Reed Army Medical Center ^*

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRADECYL SULFATE SODIUM;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INJECTION; LOUDNESS; MALE; PALATE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; SNORING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTICLE; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SOFT PALATE;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PALATE, SOFT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SNORING; SODIUM TETRADECYL SULFATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038749187     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0194-5998(03)00229-8     Document Type: Article

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