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Adapting Human Videofluoroscopic Swallow Study Methods to Detect and Characterize Dysphagia in Murine Disease Models
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Determining normal bolus size for thin liquids

I Adnerhill, O Ekberg, M E Groher

    Dysphagia
    |January 1, 1989
    PubMed

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