Material can also travel retrograde from the stomach and esophagus back to the oropharynx. Careful coordination of neuromuscular function during transit in both directions is critical to prevent ...

The oropharynx is the part of the pharynx behind the mouth. It consists of the walls of the throat, tonsils, last third of the tongue, and the soft palate. The soft palate is the soft, muscular ...

001) and exhibited improved video fluoroscopic swallowing function (P ... chemoradiation de-escalation strategies for HPV-related oropharynx cancer that are based on broadly available imaging ...

The oral cavity and oropharynx are spaces defined by both ... The shape of these two spaces changes with the normal physiologic function of the surrounding structures during speech, swallowing ...

PHOENIX, Arizona — Positron emission tomography (PET) can identify patients with p16-positive oropharynx cancer ... improvements in swallowing function at 3 months (P = .036).

Zhang and colleagues obtained data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program from 69,562 patients aged 34 years to 83 years diagnosed with oropharynx cancer. Investigators used ...

New research indicates that there is a higher risk of early death among patients with oropharynx cancer when not caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), than those whose tumors are HPV-positive.