How we do it: The role of trans-nasal flexible laryngo-oesophagoscopy (TNFLO) in ENT: One year's experience in a head and neck orientated practice in the UK

Clinical Otolaryngology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 551-556

  Price, T ^a,b   Sharma, A ^a   Snelling, J ^a   Bennett, A M D ^a   Qayyum, A ^a   Bradnam, T ^a   Montgomery, P ^a  

^a NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MRCS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BARIUM MEAL; CANCER LOCALIZATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHONIA; ENDOSCOPE; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS CANDIDIASIS; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FOLLOW UP; GLOBUS PHARYNGEUS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFORMED CONSENT; LARYNGOSCOPY; LASER SURGERY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MUCOSAL DISEASE; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; OUTPATIENT; PAIN; PHARYNX DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; TRANSNASAL FLEXIBLE LARYNGO ESOPHAGOSCOPY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; ESOPHAGOSCOPES; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; FIBER OPTICS; FOREIGN BODIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LARYNGOSCOPES; LARYNGOSCOPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NOSE; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; PLIABILITY; POSTURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS;

EID: 28944451338     PISSN: 17494478     EISSN: 17494486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-4486.2005.01103.x     Document Type: Article

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