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Swallowing is an important developmental process for human life. It requires the cooperation of the mouth, pharynx, and esophagus for successful completion. Esophageal dysphagia, or difficult swallowing, can be the result of behavioral, developmental, and neurological respiratory disorders, GER, and inflammatory diseases. It is observed in 25–45 % of developing children and even more with developmental disorders

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Mousa, H. (2017). Other Esophageal Motility Disorders. In: Faure, C., Thapar, N., Di Lorenzo, C. (eds) Pediatric Neurogastroenterology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43268-7_22

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