Abstract
Swallowing problems may be due to an abnormal transportation of food and drinks from the mouth to the stomach. The esophagram aims to monitor this and to reveal abnormalities in the morphodynamic process. It is important to analyze the patient’s symptom before the examination in order to custom-tailor the radiologic approach and to be able to explain the patients symptoms. Lower motor-neuron disease causes a global weakness in the pharyngeal musculature with lack of elevation of the pharynx during swallowing. This may cause major aspiration. Upper motor neuron disease affects the oral stage as well as an incoordination in the pharyngeal stage.
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Ekberg, O., Pokieser, P., Scharitzer, M. (2018). Radiologic Evaluation of Swallowing: The Esophagram. In: Bardan, E., Shaker, R. (eds) Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59352-4_19
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