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Abstract
Cricopharyngeal myotomy as an independent procedure has bee performed on 11 patients with a variety of neuromuscular disorders suffering from dysphagia localized to the neck. There was dramatic improvement in nine with one failure and one death from pre-existing pneumonia. The selection of patients for this operation is based on manometric studies.Entities:
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Year: 1981 PMID： 7241630
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Otolaryngol ISSN： 0381-6605