Forty patients (18 women, 22 men) with incapacitating oropharyngeal dysphagia of neurologic origin underwent cricopharyngeal myotomy. The subjective and objective response to myotomy was analyzed retrospectively with a mean postoperative follow-up of 48 months (range 1 to 255 months).

Cricopharyngeal myotomy for neurogenic oropharyngeal dysphagia / N. C. Poirier, L. Bonavina, R. Taillefer, A. Nosadini, A. Peracchia, A. Duranceau. - In: JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY. - ISSN 0022-5223. - 113:2(1997 Feb), pp. 233-40; discussion 240-1-241.

Cricopharyngeal myotomy for neurogenic oropharyngeal dysphagia

L. Bonavina
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1997

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Forty patients (18 women, 22 men) with incapacitating oropharyngeal dysphagia of neurologic origin underwent cricopharyngeal myotomy. The subjective and objective response to myotomy was analyzed retrospectively with a mean postoperative follow-up of 48 months (range 1 to 255 months).
Cricoid Cartilage; Humans; Retrospective Studies; Aged; Palliative Care; Deglutition Disorders; Aged, 80 and over; Pharyngeal Muscles; Adult; Manometry; Middle Aged; Female; Male
Settore MED/18 - Chirurgia Generale
feb-1997
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