title: Evaluation and management of chronic aspiration.
abstract: In managing the patient with chronic aspiration, physicians must have an understanding of normal swallowing physiology as well as swallowing pathology and laryngeal incompetence induced by neurologic, anatomic, and postsurgical insults. We herein review these concepts, and elaborate upon techniques used in evaluation and surgical management of patients exhibiting significant and potentially life-threatening aspiration events.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Kirsch
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Solomon
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D003679:Deglutition / Q000502:physiology; D003680:Deglutition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans