[Dysphagia in oral medicine].
Dysphagia, defined as a difficulty in swallowing of fluids and/or food, is one of the most frequent symptoms of oesophageal, gastrointestinal or ENT diseases. Interestingly, dysphagia can be also the initial or late symptom of several oral diseases: e.g. traumatic ulcerations, immunomediated or infectious lesions, malignant neoplastic disease or mucositis in chemio-radiotherapy. The presence of this frequent symptom, with or without oral evident lesions, can suggest the presence of oral or perioral diseases, promoving adequate diagnostic-therapeutic management. In this paper, authors describe aetiology, pathogenesis and clinical aspects of oral diseases, as being more frequently associated with dysphagia; moreover, they describe the most important clinical and epidemiological features of systemic diseases associated with dysphagia.
Unità Complessa di Odontoiatria, Settore di Medicina Orale, Dipartimento Scienze Stomatologiche G. Messina, Azienda Ospedaliera-Universitaria Paolo Giaccone, Palermo.
Chiara
C
Di Liberto
Giuseppe
G
Pizzo
Olga
O
Di Fede
Nicola
N
Giannone
Lorenzo
L
Lo Muzio
Giuseppina
G
Campisi
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