Role of ultrasound in evaluation of pharyngeal dysphagia in children with cerebral palsy

Abstract Background The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical reliability of ultrasound (US) examination using relative laryngeal movement of 40% as a cutoff point to diagnose pharyngeal abnormalities of swallowing using ultrasonographic examination in dysphagic cerebral palsy (CP) patients...

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Main Authors: Ahmed S. Abdelrahman, Emad H. Abdeldayem, Samia Bassiouny, Hanan M. Elshoura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-09-01
Series:The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s43055-019-0014-y