Age-dependent changes in the size of adenotonsillar tissue in childhood: Implications for sleep-disordered breathing

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Papaioannou, Georgia ^a   Kambas, Ilias ^a   Tsaoussoglou, Marina ^b   Panaghiotopoulou Gartagani, Polytimi ^b   Chrousos, George ^b   Kaditis, Athanasios G ^b  

^a Mitera Maternity and Children's Hospital   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adenoid oblique width; AOW; BMI; Body mass index; Cross sectional area; CSA; IML; Intermandibular length; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mental spine clivus length; MRI; MSCL; Nasopharyngeal; NP; OP; Oropharyngeal; SDB; Sleep disordered breathing; Tonsillar width; TW

Indexed keywords

ADENOID; ADENOTONSILLAR HYPERTROPHY; ADOLESCENT; AGE; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OROPHARYNX; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SLEEP DISORDER; SNORING; SPINE;

EID: 84872345237     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: 10976833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2012.07.041     Document Type: Article

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