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Strategies to Improve Regeneration of the Soft Palate Muscles After Cleft Palate Repair [PDF]
Tissue Engineering Part B: Reviews, 2012 Children with a cleft in the soft palate have difficulties with speech, swallowing, and sucking. These patients are unable to separate the nasal from the oral cavity leading to air loss during speech. Although surgical repair ameliorates soft palate function by joining the clefted muscles of the soft palate, optimal function is often not achieved.
Carvajal Monroy, P.L. +4 more
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Motor unit potential analysis of the palatal muscles in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
Neurological Sciences and Neurophysiology, 2020 Objectives: Among different theories about pathogenesis of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), dysfunction of upper airway muscles still awaits to be delineated.
Feray Karaali-Savrun +6 more
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An Acute Pharyngeal-Cervical-Brachial Variant of Guillain-Barre Syndrome Manifesting as Isolated Bulbar Palsy [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2020 Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) is characterised by acute onset ascending quadriparesis with areflexia. One of its rare variants is the Pharyngeal-Cervical-Brachial (PCB) variant which is characterised by acute weakness of the oropharyngeal, neck, and ...
Ayan Husain +3 more
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Multi-MUP Analysis of Palatal Muscles in Healthy Men
Türk Uyku Tıbbı Dergisi, 2014 Introduction: The palatal muscles play an important role in the patency of upper airway together with other pharyngeal muscles. Studying their function will be helpful for delineating the pathophysiology of disorders affecting the upper airway patency ...
Feray Karaali Savrun +4 more
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A Case of Intractable Psychogenic Essential Palatal Tremor [PDF]
Journal of Movement Disorders, 2012 Essential palatal tremor (EPT) is a rare disorder which shows rhythmic involuntary movement of the muscles of soft palate, especially tensor veli palatini muscle. EPT is classified by two subtypes, which is primary and secondary EPT.
Eun Joo Chung, Hyun Jung, Sang Jin Kim
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The innervation of the soft palate muscles involved in cleft palate: a review of the literature [PDF]
Clinical Oral Investigations, 2016 Surgical techniques to obtain adequate soft palate repair in cleft palate patients elaborate on the muscle repair; however, there is little available information regarding the innervation of muscles. Improved insights into the innervation of the musculature will likely allow improvements in the repair of the cleft palate and subsequently decrease the ...
Logjes, Robrecht J. H. +2 more
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Palatal myoclonus: report of two cases [PDF]
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2000 We describe two cases of palatal myoclonus (PM), one essential and another secondary to a stroke. Case 1: a 64 years old female who developed clicking sounds in both ears after a stroke and three years later on noticed a progressive involuntary movement ...
GIORGIO FABIANI +6 more
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A Rare Case of Familial Progressive Ataxia with Palatal Tremors [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022 A 25-year-old female patient presented with insidious onset progressive difficulties of gait and balance. Onset of these symptoms first appeared nine years prior and evolved to include changes in speech, increased occurrence of falls and spastic ...
Abhilash Mishra +4 more
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Essential palatal myoclonus: A rare cause of objective tinnitus
International Journal of Advanced Medical and Health Research, 2016 Palatal myoclonus is one of the rare causes of tinnitus characterized by rhythmic involuntary contraction of muscles of soft palate as well as pharynx.
Thuruthiath Nisha +1 more
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Epithelial integrity in palatal shelf elevation
Japanese Dental Science Review, 2012 The palate is the ceiling of the oral cavity that separates the nasal and oral cavities in mammals. Anterior two-thirds of the palate that has the bone and the rugae on the oral surface is the hard palate, and the posterior one-third of the palate lacks ...
Shigeru Okuhara, Sachiko Iseki
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