One-year results: Palatal implants for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 818-822

  Nordgård, Ståle ^a   Hein, Gerhard ^b   Stene, Brit Kari ^a   Skjøstad, Ketil Wichman ^a   Maurer, Joachim T ^b  

^a TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MALE; PALATAL IMPLANT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; THERAPY EFFECT;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALATE, SOFT; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247465075     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2006.11.018     Document Type: Article

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