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April 15, 2024Sleep MedicineOpen Access

Outcome of tonsillotomy in children with obstructive sleep-disordered breathing

Tina Kissow Lildal An Boudewyns Konstantinos Kamperis Søren Rittig Jannik Buus Bertelsen Jonas Holm Thomas Qvist Barrett Jakob Korsholm Ali Abood Therese Ovesen

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Abstract

• Clinical diagnosis versus polysomnography • Only significant obstructive AHI reduction in children with moderate to severe OSA • Tonsillotomy cure rate 42% and 85% success rate • Significant improvement in parent reported symptom questionnaire (PSQ-SRBD)

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Lildal et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e6f04eb6db64358766b372 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2024.04.014

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