Scintigraphic assessment of aspiration i
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Dr. Jaroslaw Muz; Dr. Sandra Hamlet; Dr. Robert Mathog; Dr. Ronnie Farris
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Article
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1994
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Tracheopulmonary aspiration commonly occurs in patients with dysphagia related to head and neck cancer. Scintigraphic studies were performed in 280 patients with head and neck cancer; 33% of these patients had tracheopulmonary aspiration. A subgroup of 18 tracheostomized patients had a tracheostomy