Multilevel surgery for obstructive sleep apnea: Short-term results

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 571-577

  Verse, Thomas ^a   Baisch, Alexander ^a   Maurer, Joachim T ^a   Stuck, Boris A ^a   Hörmann, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYOID BONE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOSE SURGERY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHARYNX DISEASE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RADIOFREQUENCY; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP PATTERN; TONSILLECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYOID BONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; TIME FACTORS; TONGUE; TONSILLECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVULA;

EID: 33645322392     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2005.10.062     Document Type: Article

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