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Down's syndrome with lingual tonsil hypertrophy producing sleep apnoea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

D. E. Phillips  and
J. H. Rogers
D. E. Phillips*
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool.
J. H. Rogers
Affiliation:
Department of Otolaryngology, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool.
*
D.E. Phillips Registrar in ENT Department of Otorinolaryngology, University of Liverpool, PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX
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Abstract

A 12-year-old girl is presented with Down's syndrome and lingual tonsillitis causing sleep apnoea. In order to overcome her sleep apnoea she adopted a functional sleeping posture. The sleep apnoea was successfully treated by a single staged lingual tonsillectomy without preliminary tracheostomy. A return to a normal sleeping posture occurred spontaneously in the early post-operative period.

Type
Clinical Records
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 102 , Issue 11 , November 1988 , pp. 1054 - 1055
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1988

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