Video imaging provides dynamic view of airway obstruction in those with sleep breathing disorder
Monday, February 16, 2009 - 20:28
in Health & Medicine
A video imaging technique demonstrates that the soft palate, the tissue at the back of the roof of the mouth, is more elongated and angled in patients with obstructive sleep apnea both when they sleep and when they are awake, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.