Etiology, clinical manifestations and concurrent findings in mouth-breathing children
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Etiology, clinical manifestations and concurrent findings in mouth-breathing children.
OBJECTIVE To investigate the etiology, main clinical manifestations and other concurrent findings in mouth-breathing children aged 3 to 9 years and resident in the urban area of Abaeté (MG), Brazil. METHODS This study was based on a representative random sample of the town population, of 23,596 inhabitants. Clinical diagnosis of mouth-breathing was defined as a combination of snoring, sleepin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Jornal de Pediatria
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0021-7557
DOI: 10.2223/jped.1844