Tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy versus non-surgical management for obstructive sleep-disordered breathing in children

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Venekamp, Roderick P ^a   Hearne, Benjamin J ^b   Chandrasekharan, Deepak ^b   Blackshaw, Helen ^b   Lim, Jerome ^c   Schilder, Anne G M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MEDWAY MARITIME HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOIDECTOMY; ADENOTONSILLECTOMY; APNEA HYPOPNEA INDEX; BLEEDING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOWN SYNDROME; EPWORTH SLEEPINESS SCALE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RASH; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TONSILLECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHILD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

ADENOIDECTOMY; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 84979863228     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD011165.pub2     Document Type: Review

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