Sleep-related Disorders in the Obese

Pathogenesis of upper airway occlusion during sleep

John E. Remmers, William J. deGroot, Eberhardt K. Sauerland et al. · Journal of Applied Physiology · 1978 · 1.9K citations

Medicine, Otolaryngology, Sleep Medicine +9

Surgical Correction of Anatomic Abnormalities in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome: Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty

Shiro Fujita, William Conway, Frank Zorick et al. · Otolaryngology · 1981 · 1.2K citations

Medicine, Otolaryngology, Surgery +17

Extreme obesity associated with alveolar hypoventilation—A pickwickian syndrome

C. Sidney Burwell, Eugene D. Robin, Robert D. Whaley et al. · The American Journal of Medicine · 1956 · 933 citations

Medicine, Physiology, Pathophysiology +12

Clinical overview of the sleep apnea syndromes

C. Guilleminault · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1978 · 411 citations

Medicine, Internal Medicine, Otolaryngology +14

Do Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Have Thick Necks?

Ian Katz, John Stradling, A. S. Sljutsky et al. · American Review of Respiratory Disease · 1990 · 308 citations

Medicine, Otolaryngology, Laryngology +15