The role of ethnicity in the upper airway in a Belgian paediatric population with obstructive sleep apnoea
- 5 October 2017
- journal article
- Published by European Respiratory Society (ERS) in European Respiratory Journal
- Vol. 50 (4) , 1701278
Abstract
Upper airway volume between the uvula and epiglottis is smaller in African compared to European children with OSAhttp://ow.ly/AgoR30evNCuKeywords
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