Correlation between retroglossal airway size and body mass index in OSA and non-OSA patients using cone beam CT imaging

Sleep and Breathing

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 347-352

  Shigeta, Yuko ^a,b   Enciso, Reyes ^a   Ogawa, Takumi ^b   Shintaku, Werner H ^a   Clark, Glenn T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TSURUMI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computerized tomography; Imaging; Sleep apnea syndromes; Upper airway

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AIRWAY; AIRWAY CROSS SECTION AREA; AIRWAY CROSS SECTION AREA AIRWAY SQUARE AREA RATIO; AIRWAY LATERAL WIDTH; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROGLOSSAL AIRWAY SIZE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SUPINE POSITION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ORGAN SIZE; PHARYNX; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 53549123822     PISSN: 15209512     EISSN: 15221709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11325-008-0186-6     Document Type: Article

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