Abbreviations | Muscle disorders affecting oral and pharyngeal swallowing : GI Motility online

From the following article

Safwan Jaradeh

GI Motility online (2006)

doi:10.1038/gimo35

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

creatine kinase

dermatomyositis

Duchenne muscular dystrophy

electromyography

gastrointestinal

inclusion body myositis

myotonic dystrophy

myasthenia gravis

mitochondrial myopathy, peripheral neuropathy, gastrointestinal disease, and encephalopathy

oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy

polymyositis

upper esophageal sphincter