Predicting the nature of swallowing deficits caused by surgical resection of the tongue?
2 March 2022
| Roganie Govender
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ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
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Functional outcomes, Glossectomy classification, Swallowing, Tongue cancer, Videofluoroscopy
Patients treated surgically for cancer of the tongue are expected to have difficulty in eating, drinking and swallowing. The authors of this paper report on a cohort of 106 patients in their practice who had surgical resection as primary treatment....
All videoswallows are not performed equally…
1 July 2021
| Roganie Govender
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ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
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Deglutition, Deglutition disorders, Dysphagia, Swallowing, Videofluoroscopy
Videofluoroscopy is one of the main instrumental tools used to assess swallowing biomechanics and physiology. In the UK, it is mainly within the remit of speech and language therapists (SLT) to perform videoswallows but there is considerable variability in both...
