Surgical treatment of the sleep apnea syndrome in the twenty-first century

Current Respiratory Medicine Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 187-207

  Barceló, Xavier ^a,b   Mirapeix, Rosa M ^c   Domingo, Christian ^c,d,e  

^a HOSPITAL DE L ESPERIT SANT   (Spain)

^b Clínica Fundació FIATC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Hospital Universitari Parc Taulí   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT INTERNACIONAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Friedman tongue position; Fujita; Mallampati; Sleep apnea syndrome; Surgery; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CEPHALOMETRY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; FLUOROSCOPY; GLOSSECTOMY; HUMAN; MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; NOSE SEPTUM RECONSTRUCTION; NOSE SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PHARYNX RECONSTRUCTION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SEDATION; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEOSTOMY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; UVULOPALATOPHARYNGOPLASTY;

EID: 53649101035     PISSN: 1573398X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157339808785161378     Document Type: Review

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