%0 Journal Article
%T Inability to Belch and Associated Symptoms Due to Retrograde Cricopharyngeus Dysfunction: Diagnosis and Treatment
%A Melissa L. Smithson
%A Robert W. Bastian
%J Archive of "OTO Open".
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2473974X19834553
%X To propose and test the validity of a new syndrome called retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction (R-CPD) that explains inability to belch and the associated symptoms of loud gurgling noises, chest and abdominal pain/distention, and excessive flatulence, as well as to report the results of botulinum toxin (BT) injection into the cricopharyngeus muscle (CPM) for both diagnosis and treatment of R-CPD
%K belch
%K burp
%K flatulence
%K upper esophageal sphincter
%K cricopharyngeus
%K botulinum toxin
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6572913/