Can a fluoroscopic estimation of pharyngeal constriction predict aspiration?

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 215-217

  Yip, Helena ^a   Leonard, Rebecca ^a   Belafsky, Peter C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHARYNX; PHARYNX CONSTRICTION; PHARYNX DISEASE; PHARYNX EXAMINATION; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRENGTH; SWALLOWING; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VIDEORECORDING;

AGED; DEGLUTITION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; INHALATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PHARYNX;

EID: 33746518595     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2006.03.016     Document Type: Article

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