Down's syndrome with lingual tonsil hypertrophy producing sleep apnoea
- 1 November 1988
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Laryngology & Otology
- Vol. 102 (11) , 1054-1055
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s002221510010725x
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.Keywords
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