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Surgical therapy for swallowing disorders
1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, New York, New York, USA.
Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America
|June 18, 1998
Abstract:
In a physiologic act as complex as swallowing, there are myriad causes of dysfunction that can disorder feeding and respiration with grave consequences. The appropriate diagnostic evaluation of dysphagia and aspiration along with a review of a range of surgical strategies to correct swallowing and aspiration disorders are presented in this article.