Brain, Vol. 122, No. 8, 1604-1605,
August 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press
Book Reviews |
MANAGEMENT OF ADULT NEUROGENIC DYSPHAGIA.
By Maggie Lee Huckabee and Cathy A. Pelletier. 998. Pp. 336. San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Price £40.00. ISBN 1-56593-731-7..
Cardiff, UK
Until recently dysphagia due to neurological disease was rarely studied in detail. For clinical neurologists the limited repertoire of bulbar symptoms and signs meant that the cause of the swallowing problem was more easily inferred from symptoms and signs in the limbs and upper cranial nerves, whilst ENT surgeons have understandably focused their attention on structural and malignant disease. Speech and