Erschienen in:
28.08.2018 | Stanford Multidisciplinary Seminars
The Turn of the Screw: A Tale of Dysphagia
verfasst von:
Nathan S. Ramrakhiani, George Triadafilopoulos
Erschienen in:
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
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Ausgabe 3/2019
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Excerpt
A 49-year-old Caucasian woman was initially evaluated with a four-month history of throat pain, difficulty swallowing, and hoarseness. She denied upper extremity pain, paresthesias, numbness, or weakness, and reported no gait disturbances or bowel or bladder dysfunction. Her past history was significant for a motor vehicle accident 17 years prior, with cervical spine injury leading to radiculopathy. She subsequently underwent anterior cervical decompression, spinal fusion, and insertion of an integrated cage and plate system without any perioperative complications. …