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Huge laryngeal saccular cyst causing obstructive sleep apnea

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  1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 2-7 Daigaku-Machi, Takatsuki, Osaka, 569-8686, Japan

    Masaaki Higashino, Shogo Furukawa, Yuko Inaka & Ryo Kawata

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MH: contributed to the design of the report, collected data, and drafted the manuscript. SF, YI collected data. RK: approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Higashino, M., Furukawa, S., Inaka, Y. et al. Huge laryngeal saccular cyst causing obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep Biol. Rhythms 21, 385–386 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41105-023-00452-6

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