Year 2016 / Volume 108 / Number 12
Letter to the Editor
Utility of surgical myotomy in the dysphagia due to oculopharyngeal dystrophy

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2016.4266/2016

M.ª Asunción Acosta Mérida, Joaquín Marchena Gómez, Josefa M.ª Afonso Déniz,

Abstract
Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD), is a rare hereditary myopathy that affects mainly the levator palpebrae and the constrictor pharyngeal muscles, being able to cause severe dysphagia. It can be treated effectively by surgical cricopharyngeal myotomy, as in the case presented below.
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Publication history

Received: 11/02/2016

Accepted: 13/04/2016

Online First: 04/11/2016

Published: 30/11/2016

Article revision time: 47 days

Article Online First time: 267 days

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