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Usefulness of a dedicated mouthpiece for the Valsalva maneuver to visualize the hypopharynx during transoral endoscopy

Background and study aims  Patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are at high risk of developing second primary SCCs in the hypopharynx. However, such second primary tumors are difficult to observe because of lumen closure. The Valsalva maneuver using a dedicated mouthpiece is a prom...

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Autores principales: Kato, Minoru, Hayashi, Yoshito, Uema, Ryotaro, Saiki, Hirotsugu, Kimura, Keiichi, Inoue, Takanori, Sakatani, Akihiko, Yoshii, Shunsuke, Tsujii, Yoshiki, Shinzaki, Shinichiro, Hida, Eisuke, Iijima, Hideki, Takehara, Tetsuo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: © Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2020
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7089799/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32258376
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/a-1099-9130