Dysphagia in Stroke and Neurologic Disease

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 867-888

  González Fernández, Marlís ^a   Daniels, Stephanie K ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOMORPHINE; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; CORTICOSTEROID; LEVODOPA; PLACEBO; PYRIDOSTIGMINE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBRAL PALSY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONSCIOUSNESS; CRICOPHARYNGEUS MUSCLE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DRINKING; DYSPHAGIA; EATING; ENDOSCOPY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPERSALIVATION; MEMORY; MORTALITY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYOTOMY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOSE FEEDING; OLIVOPONTOCEREBELLAR ATROPHY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLIOMYELITIS; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; REVIEW; STROKE; SWALLOWING; TARDIVE DYSKINESIA; THYMECTOMY; WILSON DISEASE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; DEGLUTITION; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; PARKINSON DISEASE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE;

EID: 54049144771     PISSN: 10479651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmr.2008.07.001     Document Type: Review

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