NASENDOSCOPY IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF VELOPHARYNGEAL INCOMPETENCE

Autor: PIGOTT, R. W., BENSEN, J. F., WHITE, F. D.
Zdroj: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; February 1969, Vol. 43 Issue: 2 p141-147, 7p
Abstrakt: The surgeon faced with the question of velopharyngeal incompetence is deprived of most resources of classical diagnosis. On inspecting, he may speculate (astronomer like) on the mysteries above the vault; while from lateral X-rays or cinefluorography he must be content, as it were, to lip-read from the shadows upon a wall.
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