Upper airway obstruction during sleep in children. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Cinefluoroscopic findings are described in nine children with sleep-related upper airway obstruction who are asymptomatic while awake. Asleep, these patients show strikingly similar changes in the region of the hypopharynx. During inspiration, the tongue and hypopharyngeal soft tissues are approximate, obliterating the hypopharyngeal air space causing intermittent and almost complete obstruction to air flow. The value of cinefluoroscopic studies on sleeping children with clinical symptoms of airway obstruction during sleep is emphasized.

publication date

  • August 1, 1979

Research

keywords

  • Airway Obstruction
  • Sleep Wake Disorders

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0018385167

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.2214/ajr.133.2.213

PubMed ID

  • 110081

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 133

issue

  • 2