Does preexisting posterior pharyngeal wall motion drive the dynamism of sphincter pharyngoplasty?

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1457-1462

  Witt, Peter D ^a   Myckatyn, Terry ^a   Marsh, Jeffrey L ^a   Grames, Lynn Marty ^a   Pilgram, Thomas K ^a  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOTION; PALATOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE; PHARYNX RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

CHILD; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PALATAL MUSCLES; PALATE, SOFT; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLES; PHARYNX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SPEECH; VELOPHARYNGEAL INSUFFICIENCY; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0031803899     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199805000-00004     Document Type: Article

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