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Dysphagia in Patients with the Post-Polio Syndrome
NEJM 324:1162-1167, 1206-12071991., Sonies,B.C.&Dalakas,M.C., 1991
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Article Abstract
In patients with the post-polio syndrome,the bulbar muscles often have clinical or subclinical signs of dysfunction.These abnormalities suggest that in bulbar neurons there is a slowly progressive deterioration similar to that in the muscles of the limbs.
 
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