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Two-Year-Old with Post-Surgical Hypoglossal Nerve Injury and Obstructive Sleep Apnea

BACKGROUND: Airway patency in both children and adults depends on the tonic and phasic activation of muscles of the tongue and pharynx supplied by the hypoglossal nerve arising at the medullary level METHODS/PATIENT: We report a case of a 2-year-old who after resection of fourth ventricle anaplastic...

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Main Authors: DelRosso, Lourdes M., Hoque, Romy, Gonzalez-Toledo, Eduardo
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Academy of Sleep Medicine 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3869077/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24426827
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.3372
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