Gender- and age-based differences in computerized tomographic measurements of the orophaynx

Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology and Endodontology

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 563-570

  Shigeta, Yuko ^a,b   Ogawa, Takumi ^b   Venturin, Jaqueline ^a   Nguyen, Manuel ^c   Clark, Glenn T ^a   Enciso, Reyes ^c  

^a School of Dentistry   (United States)

^b TSURUMI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNX; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNX; SEX FACTORS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55049126090     PISSN: 10792104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tripleo.2008.03.032     Document Type: Article

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