Retropharyngeal lipoma causing obstructive sleep apnoea

We present the case of a middle‐aged man whose obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) was caused by a retropharyngeal lipoma, with complete resolution after transoral excision. Lipomas causing OSA are rare, and this represents the seventh reported case in the literature.

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Autores principales: Leong, Paul, Kleid, Stephen, Mansfield, Darren
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5502211/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28694968
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.251
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spelling pubmed-55022112017-07-10 Retropharyngeal lipoma causing obstructive sleep apnoea Leong, Paul Kleid, Stephen Mansfield, Darren Respirol Case Rep Case Reports We present the case of a middle‐aged man whose obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) was caused by a retropharyngeal lipoma, with complete resolution after transoral excision. Lipomas causing OSA are rare, and this represents the seventh reported case in the literature. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2017-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5502211/ /pubmed/28694968 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.251 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Respirology Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of The Asian Pacific Society of Respirology This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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title_short Retropharyngeal lipoma causing obstructive sleep apnoea
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