Biomechanics, diagnosis, and treatment outcome in inflammatory myopathy presenting as oropharyngeal dysphagia

Gut

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 471-478

  Williams, R B ^b   Grehan, M J ^b   Hersch, M ^b   Andre, J ^b   Cook, I J ^a,b  

^a ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; CREATINE KINASE; CYCLOSPORIN; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERTICULOSIS; DYSPHAGIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; LABORATORY TEST; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MANOMETRY; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOSITIS; OROPHARYNGEAL DYSPHAGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWALLOWING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOMECHANICS; CREATINE KINASE; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MYOSITIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHARYNX; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0345268704     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.52.4.471     Document Type: Article

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