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Background:The autoimmune disease Sjogren's syndrome(SS)is often characterized by salivary changes that may affect swallowing.No known study has investigated the association between salivary biomarkers and perceptions...
Systemic sclerosis is a connective tissue disease that presents with significant gastrointestinal involvement,commonly in the esophagus.Dysphagia is a common clinical manifestation of systemic sclerosis and is strongl...
Introduction:Interruptive mandibulectomy is often unavoidable despite the functional postoperative handicaps that it generates. Plate reconstruction is the only pos...
The data was collected from Peking Union Medical College Hospital.We wish to thank all those who generously agreed to be interviewed for our work.We also sincerely thank Dr.Carrie Tudor for her revision of this paper.
Objective:To estimate the prevalence of dysphagia and frailty among hospitalized older patients and to analyze the relationship between dysphagia and frailty in these people.Methods:Data were collected on 386 particip...
Objective:Nasopharyngeal cancer(NPC)has distinct characteristics regarding its global prevalence,initial presentation,management and patient outcomes compared to other subtypes of head and neck cancer(HNC).The mainsta...
Importance: Hypertrophy of the pharyngeal and palatine tonsils can interfere with breathing, physical and cognitive development, and quality of life, including sleep quality. There are important relationships between ...