Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 7, Issue 1 , Pages 9-33 , February 2003

The upper airway in sleep: physiology of the pharynx

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doi: 10.1053/smrv.2002.0238

Sleep Medicine Reviews
Volume 7, Issue 1 , Pages 9-33 , February 2003

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