Guideline: Treatment of adult obstructive sleep apnea;Leitlinie: Therapie der obstruktiven schlafapnoe des erwachsenen

Laryngo- Rhino- Otologie

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 192-204

  Verse, Thomas ^a   De La Chaux, R ^b   Dreher, A ^b   Fischer, Y ^c   Grundmann, T ^d   Hecksteden, K ^e   Hormann K ^f   Hohenhorst, W ^g   Ilgen, F ^h   Kuhnel T ⁱ   Mahl, N ^j   Maurer, J T ^f   Pirsig, W ^c   Roth, B ^k   Siegert, R ^j   Stuck, B A ^f  

^a Asklepios Klinik Harburg   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^d ASKLEPIOS KLINIK ALTONA   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^f Universitäts HNO Klinik Mannheim

^g ALFRIED KRUPP KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^h HNO Praxis   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^j PROSPER HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYOID BONE; HYPOPHARYNX; LARYNX; LARYNX SURGERY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; NASOPHARYNX; NOSE; PHARYNX RECONSTRUCTION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; TRACHEA; TRACHEOTOMY; UPPER AIRWAY RESISTANCE SYNDROME; UVULOPALATOPHARYNGOPLASTY;

ADULT; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; ELECTROCOAGULATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; NASOPHARYNX; OCCLUSAL SPLINTS; RHINOPLASTY; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 41149095943     PISSN: 09358943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-966213     Document Type: Review

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