منابع مشابه
Cricopharyngeal bar
A 65 year gentleman had complaints of difficulty in swallowing primarily for solids along with foreign body sensation in throat for six months duration. Patient also had to do multiple attempts at swallowing the bolus. Occasionally patient also had episodes of coughing during swallowing of liquids. Patient had no loss of weight, fever and hematemesis. Barium swallow revealed narrowing at level ...
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OBJECTIVE To compare swallowing outcomes following cricopharyngeal (CP) dilation versus surgical myotomy in patients with dysphagia secondary to idiopathic CP bar. METHODS All patients had an idiopathic CP bar without a history of Zenker's diverticulum, head and neck cancer, or systemic neurologic disease treated between 2000 and 2013. The Functional Outcome Swallowing Scale (FOSS) was utiliz...
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A 6-month-old patient presented with dysphagia and failure to thrive. Video fluoroscopic swallow study (VFSS), esophagogastroduodenoscopy, and manometry were diagnostic for CA. A gastrostomy tube was placed at 8 months. Botulinum toxin injection improved symptoms, but within 10 weeks symptoms returned. At 18 months, an uncomplicated endoscopic CPM was performed. A postoperative VFSS demonstrate...
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OBJECTIVE Cricopharyngeal myotomy as an independent procedure has been performed on fourteen patients with a variety of neuromuscular disorders, suffering from neurogenic oropharyngeal dysphagia in the interval between 1994-1997. All of them were referred from a neurophysician or physiatrist after failure of improvement by medical treatment. METHODS The selection of patients for operation was...
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The pattern of relaxation of the cricopharyngeal sphincter by suxamethonium was studied in fifty patients. The pattern was variable, but a large percentage of the cases showed an abrupt initial fall in cricopharyngeal sphincteric tone concomitant with, or just preceding, the onset of fasciculations, although relaxation often only reached completion after fasciculations had ceased. Of twenty-thr...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pan African Medical Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1937-8688
DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2017.27.288.13296