Esophageal dysfunction in cervical spinal cord injury: A potentially important mechanism of aspiration

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 905-911

  Neville, Angela L ^a   Crookes, Peter ^a   Velmahos, George C ^a   Vlahos, Aggeliki ^b   Theodorou, Dimitrios ^a   Lucas, Charles E ^b  

^a LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Esophageal motility; Quadriplegia; Respiratory complications; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION DISORDER; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; PH; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; UPPER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 30044431637     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000188086.02488.b1     Document Type: Article

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