Endoscopic myotomy of the cricopharyngea
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Robert P. Takes; Frank J. A. van den Hoogen; Henri A. M. Marres
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## 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