Cricopharyngeal achalasia in children: Indications for treatment and management options

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 576-580

  Huoh, Kevin C ^a   Messner, Anna H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

botulinum toxin; cricopharyngeal achalasia; cricopharyngeal dilation; cricopharyngeal myotomy; dysphagia

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; BOTULINUM TOXIN; NIFEDIPINE; NITRATE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BALLOON DILATATION; BARIUM MEAL; CRICOPHARYNGEAL ACHALASIA; CRICOPHARYNGEUS MUSCLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPHAGIA; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENTERIC FEEDING; ESOPHAGUS ACHALASIA; ESOPHAGUS MANOMETRY; FEEDING DIFFICULTY; FLUOROSCOPY; FOOD ASPIRATION; FOOD REGURGITATION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MANOMETRY; MEDIASTINITIS; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MYOTOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; RECURRENT LARYNGEAL NERVE PALSY; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT INDICATION; UPPER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; VIDEOENDOSCOPY; WOUND INFECTION;

AGE FACTORS; BOTULINUM TOXINS, TYPE A; CHILD; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DILATATION; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; NEUROMUSCULAR AGENTS; PATIENT SELECTION; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; PHARYNGEAL MUSCLES;

EID: 84888110887     PISSN: 10689508     EISSN: 15316998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.moo.0000436789.29814.62     Document Type: Review

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