Oral and pharyngeal dysfunction is common in Parkinson's disease. To reveal the frequency of swallowing dysfunction and correlate swallowing dysfunction with locomotor disturbances, we studied 75 patients with Parkinson's disease staged I-IV according to the Hoehn and Yahr score. We assessed oral an
A comment on quantitative assessment of oral and pharyngeal function in Parkinson's disease
β Scribed by Norman A. Leopold
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 132 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0179-051X
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