A Questionnaire-Based Survey of Patients after Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome Surgery—Comparison with Improvement in Apnea-Hypopnea Index—

Practica Otologica

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1347-1354

  Kawakatsu, Kenji ^a   Nishimura, Tadao ^a   Shibata, Nobuhiro ^a   Akita, Yasutaka ^a   Hattori, Chikaya ^a   Hayakawa, Munenori ^a   Nishimura, Youichi ^a   Yagisawa, Mikio ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY BANTANE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

long term survey; obstructive sleep apnea; questionnaire

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242429048     PISSN: 00326313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5631/jibirin.92.1347     Document Type: Article

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