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CAPT C. G. STROM, MC, USN
Oakland, Calif

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1992;118(2):122.

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The annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery in Kansas City, Mo, offered a special section on biotechnology. B. Tucker Woodson, MD, and Marvin Wooten, MD, Milwaukee, Wisc, described a multiport catheter to determine the site of obstruction in obstructive sleep apnea. Because of the difficulty in locating the most prominent site of obstruction before considering surgery, Drs Woodson and Wooten designed a flexible, multiport catheter to manometrically measure pressure at four sites during sleep. Coupled with videoendoscopic recordings, these researchers were able to validate the site of obstruction before and after surgery in their subjects. They used a 7F blue cordis catheter with solid-state manometry circuits. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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