First presentation of sarcoidosis with severe obstructive sleep apnoea and epiglottic involvement

Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 146-148

  Ahmed, Mohammed ^a   Sulaiman, I ^a   Rutherford, R ^a   Gilmartin, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Dysphonia; Obstructive sleep apnoea; Sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPHONIA; EPIGLOTTIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL BIOPSY; LARYNGOSCOPY; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SARCOIDOSIS; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SMOKING; SNORING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; LARYNX;

EPIGLOTTIS; HUMANS; LARYNX; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SARCOIDOSIS; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84885127610     PISSN: 11240490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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