Surgically correctable causes of sleep apnea syndrome.

摘要: This report presents six cases of obstructive sleep apnea associated with discrete anatomic abnormalities the upper airway tract. All patients were relieved their by surgical correction obstruction, and therefore permanent tracheotomy was avoided. The causative factors nasal septal deformity, adenoidal hypertrophy, nasopharyngeal stenosis, lingual cyst, tonsillar laryngeal cyst. last-named four conditions have not previously been reported as correctable causes apnea.