The Otolaryngologist's Approach to the Patient with Down Syndrome

Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 599-629

  Rodman, Regina ^a   Pine, Harold S ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired subglottic stenosis; Down syndrome; Hearing loss; Intubation; Morphology; Obstructive sleep apnea; Otitis media; Otolaryngology; Quality of life; Sinusitis; Tonsillectomy

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; STEROID;

CERUMEN IMPACTION; CHILD; CHRONIC RHINITIS; CONDUCTION DEAFNESS; DOWN SYNDROME; DRUG RESPONSE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL; EXTERNAL EAR DISEASE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; INNER EAR MALFORMATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; OTITIS MEDIA; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INJURY; REVIEW; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SPINE INSTABILITY; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANESTHESIA; ATLANTO-AXIAL JOINT; AUDIOMETRY; CHILD; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; CRANIOFACIAL ABNORMALITIES; DOWN SYNDROME; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEARING AIDS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; JOINT INSTABILITY; LANGUAGE THERAPY; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC DISEASES; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SPEECH THERAPY; TONGUE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84860898591     PISSN: 00306665     EISSN: 15578259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otc.2012.03.010     Document Type: Review

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