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Inclusion body myositis with cricopharyngeus muscle involvement and severe dysphagia
A Verma1, W G Bradley, A M Adesina
1Department of Neurology, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington.
Muscle & Nerve
|May 1, 1991
Abstract:
A patient with inclusion body myositis (IBM) is presented. Unusual aspects of this case include a myopathy of 36 years duration, severe dysphagia due to cricopharyngeus muscle dysfunction, improvement with cricopharyngeus myotomy, and a diagnostic cricopharyngeus muscle biopsy.