A pilot study of quantitative aspiration in patients with symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea: Comparison to a historic control group

Laryngoscope

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 965-968

  Beal, Michael ^a   Chesson, Andrew ^a   Garcia, Thomas ^b   Caldito, Gloria ^a   Stucker, Fred ^a   Nathan, Cherie Ann ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University School of Medicine Shreveport   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspiration; Obstructive sleep apnea; Respiratory disturbance index

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M; TRACER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS SECRETION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG ASPIRATION; MALE; PHARYNX; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCINTISCANNING; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHALATION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PHARYNX; PILOT PROJECTS; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID;

EID: 2942616747     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200406000-00002     Document Type: Article

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