الفهرس 
Title : Barbed Suture in Expansion Sphincter Pharyngoplasty For the Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
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Abstract
The recently suggested importance of pharyngeal muscular walls in the pathogenesis of pharyngeal obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is supported by the encouraging results obtained using the tailored surgical techniques proposed by Cahali and Pang-Tucker Woodson, which have the aim of reducing lateral pharyngeal wall (LPW) collapsibility by sectioning and relocating the palato-pharyngeal muscle rather than ablating the redundant palato-pharyngeal soft tissue