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Endoscopy of the Pharynx and Oesophagus

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Dysphagia

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The pharynx and oesophagus belong to the upper digestive tract; their morphology and function enable normal swallowing. Dysphagia is one of the main symptoms in patients with laryngeal, pharyngeal and oesophageal diseases. Diagnostics need to consider the entire swallowing chain from the oral cavity to the stomach. However, there is a close relationship between diseases of the pharynx, larynx and oesophagus: gastrointestinal disorders, e.g. reflux disease, may show extraoesophageal manifestations in the pharynx and larynx, and in case of tumours in the upper aerodigestive tract or oesophagus, there may occur additional simultaneous tumours urging for early diagnosis.

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  1. Associate Professor, Section of Phoniatrics-Logopedics, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital, Währinger Gürtel 18–20, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    Doris-Maria Denk-Linnert M.D.

  2. Professor, Department of Internal Medicine IV, Hospital of the Elisabethinen, Fadingerstraße 1, 4020, Linz, Austria

    Rainer Schöfl M.D.

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Denk-Linnert, DM., Schöfl, R. (2018). Endoscopy of the Pharynx and Oesophagus. In: Ekberg, O. (eds) Dysphagia. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2017_130

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