Lateral Pharyngoplasty: A New Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Hypopnea Syndrome

Laryngoscope

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1961-1968

  Cahali, Michel B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Lateral pharyngoplasty; Obstructive sleep apnea; Pharyngeal muscular walls

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; PATHOGENESIS; PHARYNX RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REM SLEEP; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP STAGE; SLEEP TIME; SNORING; UVULOPALATOPHARYNGOPLASTY; Z PLASTY;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PALATE, SOFT; PHARYNX; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SURGICAL FLAPS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVULA;

EID: 0242408176     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200311000-00020     Document Type: Article

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