Neurogenic Dysphagia: Systematic Review and Proposal of a Classification System.

Warnecke, Tobias; Labeit, Bendix; Schroeder, Jens; Reckels, Alexander; Ahring, Sigrid; Lapa, Sriramya; Claus, Inga; Muhle, Paus; Suntrup-Krueger, Sonja; Dziewas, Rainer

Abstract

Neurogenic dysphagia is not a symptom, but a multietiologic syndrome with different phenotypic patterns depending on the underlying disease. Dysphagia phenotypes can facilitate differential diagnosis in patients with dysphagia of unclear etiology.