[Dysphagia] Fw: FEES

[Paula.Leslie at newcastle.ac.uk (Paula Leslie)]

>===== Original Message From Irene Campbell-Taylor <eripley@yahoo.com> =====
>I'm surprised that radiologists don't know of it as it is a medical term:
>
>Cricopharyngeal bar,
>prominent extrinsic ... cricopharyngeal muscle.
>
>The Encyclopaedia of Medical Imaging Volume IV:1
>This is incomplete ... to be deterimued clinically.

UK perspective:

I thought I'd spotted my first one recently and the radiologist (VFSSer and 
great team member) I worked with had not heard the term.  So we referred to it 
as a "cricopharyngeal prominence".  I took it to another radiologist who I've 
worked with for years (and done far more VFs with) and he said "Yep, that's 
what it is!"  He was surprised I'd not seen one before.  But he did say that 
it is not a term used by all Radys.

Paula


>Barbara Cole <bkcole@erols.com> wrote:
>
>Another question--different topic. Where did the term cricopharyngeal bar
>originate? Is it a speech or radiology driven term? I ask b/c our
>radiologists are unfamiliar with it and the dysphagia book, older edition
>by Groher, never mentions a cp bar. Is it a newer term?
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>
>I think I first heard it from our radiologists, so maybe a regional
>thing????? (I'm in the mid-Atlantic area). Barbara