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Towards a basic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing in acute stroke – identification of salient findings by the inexperienced examiner

BACKGROUND: Dysphagia is common after stroke. Fiberoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) is a powerful tool for dysphagia assessment. The purpose of this study was to assess whether a previously established endoscopic examination protocol based on the identification of typical findings in...

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Autores principales: Warnecke, Tobias, Teismann, Inga, Oelenberg, Stephan, Hamacher, Christina, Ringelstein, E Bernd, Schäbitz, Wolf R, Dziewas, Rainer
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2657144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19284543
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-9-13