Echography of the oral phase of deglutition
Cerro, P.; Diotallevi, P.; Fanucci, E.; Metastasio, F.; Fanucci, A.
La Radiologia Medica 79(1-2): 59-64
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0033-8362 PMID: 2180004 Document Number: 354886
Neither cineradiography nor videorecording are satisfactory techniques for the dynamic study of the oral phase of deglutition. Therefore, oral swallowing was studied by means of real-time sonography (US) in 20 asymptomatic patients. Both anatomy and motility of the muscles of the mouth and tongue were clearly demonstrated. Real-time US proved thus to allow an accurate and dynamic visualization of the oral phase of deglutition.