Functional respiratory imaging as a tool to assess upper airway patency in children with obstructive sleep apnea

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 433-439

  Van Holsbeke, C ^a   Vos, W ^a,b   Van Hoorenbeeck, K ^b   Boudewyns, A ^b   Salgado, R ^b   Verdonck, P R ^c   Ramet, J ^b   De Backer, J ^a   De Backer, W ^b   Verhulst, S L ^b  

^a FLUIDDA NV   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Imaging; Obstructive sleep apnea; Tonsillar hypertrophy; Upper airway conductance; Upper airway volume

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY CONDUCTANCE; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UPPER AIRWAY PATENCY; UPPER AIRWAY VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; NASAL CAVITY; NASAL OBSTRUCTION; PALATINE TONSIL; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84876814685     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: 18785506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2012.12.005     Document Type: Article

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