Sleep Medicine
Volume 9, Issue 5 , Pages 587-588 , July 2008

Use of continuous positive airway pressure to treat obstructive sleep apnea with an orofacial vascular malformation and bilateral tonsillar enlargement

  • Kannan Ramar

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorder Center, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Jan L. Kasperbauer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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  • Eric J. Olson

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic Sleep Disorder Center, Rochester, MN 55905, USA

Received 11 April 2007 ,Revised 19 April 2007 ,Accepted 8 June 2007.

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PII: S1389-9457(07)00194-3

doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2007.06.002

Sleep Medicine
Volume 9, Issue 5 , Pages 587-588 , July 2008

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