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Volume 1, Issue 10 , Pages 977-979 , October 2009

The Use of Nasal Trumpet in a Traumatic Brain Injury Patient With Obstructive Sleep Apnea

  • Jaspal R. Singh, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, 5 West Gates, Philadelphia, PA 19104†
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: J.R.S.
    • ,
  • Miriam Segal, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA‡
    • ,
  • Richard Malone, DO

      Affiliations

    • JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institution, Edison, NJ§
    • ,
  • Mohammed Zubair, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ

Received 17 August 2009 ,Accepted 30 August 2009.

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PII: S1934-1482(09)01289-1

doi: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2009.08.452

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