Abstract
A patient with inclusion body myositis (IBM) is presented. Unusual aspects of this case include a myopathy of 36 years duration, severe dysphagia due to cricopharyngeus muscle dysfunction, improvement with cricopharyngeus myotomy, and a diagnostic cricopharyngeus muscle biopsy.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 470-473 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Muscle & Nerve |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 1991 |
Keywords
- cricopharyngeal muscle
- dysphagia
- inclusion body myositis
- rimmed vacuoles
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Neurology
- Neuroscience(all)