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Dysphagia in inclusion body myositis
A R Wintzen1, G T Bots, H M de Bakker
1Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
|December 1, 1988
Abstract:
Four elderly patients with inclusion body myositis and dysphagia are described. Dysphagia was the presenting symptom in three, preceding generalised weakness by 1.5 to 7 years. Myotomy of the cricopharyngeal muscle improved the symptoms and signs in 3 of the 4 patients. It is suggested that inclusion body myositis is not an infrequent cause of dysphagia in elderly people, and is amenable to treatment.