期刊介绍：

Dysphagia is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to swallowing and its disorders. The journal's purpose is to provide an international source of information to physicians and other health professionals interested in this emerging field. Its scope includes all aspects of normal and dysphagic ingestion involving the mouth pharynx and esophagus. Accordingly the journal will draw on expertise from a variety of disciplines including gastroenterology neurology otolaryngology radiology dentistry rehabilitation medicine speech pathology nursing dietetics medical administration and the basic biomedical sciences. The journal is intended to contribute to the development of this field by fostering communication between interested professionals by setting forth existing knowledge and by stimulating further research. Submission of contributions that advance the understanding of normal swallowing as well as those related to dysphagia its diagnosis and its clinical management is encouraged. Dysphagia has been organized in collaboration with leading medical specialists is this field. The journal publishes original papers case reports technical and instrumental notes letters to the Editor and review articles. A separate section contains abstracts of selected papers from the current literature. Reviews of books or monographs and announcements about national or international associations and conferences related to ingestion and dysphagia are published as space is available. The journal assures expeditious review of submitted manuscripts and prompt notification of the authors. The Editors make every effort to have accepted papers published within 9 months of acceptance.