title: Surgical treatment for sleep apnea: changes in craniofacial and pharyngeal airway morphology in a child with achondroplasia.
abstract: Here, we report the case of a male child with achondroplasia who was diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea and underwent adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy. By analyzing lateral cephalograms, we evaluated the craniofacial and pharyngeal airway morphology immediately before surgery (age, 5 years 6 months) and 1 year 2 months after surgery (age, 6 years 8 months). Adenoidectomy and tonsillectomy dilated the pharynx and improved the craniofacial and pharyngeal morphologies, apparently thus improving the sleep apnea.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Nihon University school of Dentistry, Tokyo, Japan. onodera-k@dent.nihon-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Kieko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Naoko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Niikuni
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.forename: Tetsuo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shirakawa
authors.forename: Hideaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sakata
mesh_terms: D000130:Achondroplasia / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D000233:Adenoidectomy; D002508:Cephalometry; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005147:Facial Bones / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010614:Pharynx / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000473:pathology*; D020181:Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D014068:Tonsillectomy