Kenneth W. Altman

Both acute and chronic cough are responsible for a significant number of ambulatory medical visits annually. The recent comprehensive understanding that "e;cough? is a reflection of underlying disease pays tribute to the multifactorial causes, as well recognition of the respiratory and upper digestive tract as a "e;physiologic unit.? This...

Information on Dysphagia for Otolaryngolotists in this issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics: emphasizes procedure-oriented evaluation and management; discusses the importance of this subject in terms of medical and surgical risk; heightens Otolaryngologists' role in dysphagia patient care; provides a set of recommendations to standardize the approach...