Evidence for recurrent laryngeal nerve contribution in motor innervation of the human cricopharyngeal muscle

Laryngoscope

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 705-708

  Brok, Heidy A J ^a   Copper, Marcel P ^b   Stroeve, Rutger J ^b   Ongerboer De Visser, Bram W ^b   Venker Van Haagen, Anjob J ^b   Schouwenburg, Paul F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cricopharyngeal muscle; Electromyography; Muscle innervation; Pharyngeal constrictor muscle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRICOPHARYNGEUS MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL NERVE; MALE; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPPER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PHARYNX; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE;

EID: 0032958247     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199905000-00005     Document Type: Article

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