## Background: Cricopharyngeal dysfunction may lead to severe dysphagia and aspiration. several treatment modalities are available, such as external myotomy of the muscle, dilatation, and local infiltration with botulinum toxin. recently, endoscopic transmucosal myotomies using a co2 laser have bee
A new paradigm of endoscopic cricopharyngeal myotomy with CO2 laser
โ Scribed by Shun-ichi Chitose; Kiminori Sato; Sachiyo Hamakawa; Hirohito Umeno; Tadashi Nakashima
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 373 KB
- Volume
- 121
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0023-852X
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