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[Echography of the oral phase of deglutition]
P Cerro1, P Diotallevi, E Fanucci
1Servizio di Radiologia, Ospedale Nuovo Regina Margherita, Roma.
La Radiologia Medica
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Neither cineradiography nor videorecording are satisfactory techniques for the dynamic study of the oral phase of deglutition. Therefore, oral swallowing was studied by means of real-time sonography (US) in 20 asymptomatic patients. Both anatomy and motility of the muscles of the mouth and tongue were clearly demonstrated. Real-time US proved thus to allow an accurate and dynamic visualization of the oral phase of deglutition.