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A new cause for excessive sleepiness during the day is gradually emerging from 24-hour polygraph sleep studies: intermittent upper airway obstruction which is usually hypopharyngeal but can also be nasal in origin. Three such cases are described. One was cured by a permanent tracheotomy and another by a submucous resection.
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