{"id":370,"date":"2023-04-18T18:40:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/?p=370"},"modified":"2023-04-18T18:40:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:40:50","slug":"10-what-should-you-look-for-on-examination-of-a-patient-with-dysphagia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"10. What should you look for on examination of a patient with dysphagia?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<script src=\"https:\/\/cdn.synthesys.io\/js\/synthesys_widget.js?v=3.6\"><\/script>\n<script>\n    var sysWidget = new SysWidget({ token: \"f9635692-311e-45b1-9cac-c5eec05f9951\" }); \n<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Correct answer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often this is negative, but search is made for clinical evidence of Plummer\u2013Vinson syndrome (a smooth tongue, anaemia and koilonychia); secondary nodes from a carcinoma of the oesophagus may be felt in the neck and supraclavicular fossae; and the upper abdomen is carefully palpated, as a carcinoma of the cardia is a common cause of dysphagia in elderly patients and indeed is more common in this country than carcinoma of the oesophagus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correct answer: Often this is negative, but search is made for clinical evidence of Plummer\u2013Vinson syndrome (a smooth tongue, anaemia and koilonychia); secondary nodes from a carcinoma of the oesophagus may be felt in the neck and supraclavicular fossae; and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surgqs.dratef.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}