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Burning sensation in the throat – should it be named caloripharyngeus?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 June 2007
Abstract
A burning sensation in the throat is often complained of by patients, but this symptom has been neglected in the literature. To emphasize its importance, should we give the name ‘caloripharyngeus’ to the symptom of burning in the throat? A preliminary study of 30 patients with the sensation of burning in the throat is presented in this study. Of the patients studied 73.33 per cent had hyperacidity detected for the first time. Reflux was presented in only one patient; four patients showed oesophagitis in the lower one-third of the oeosphagus; 90 per cent of the patients responded to antacids. We suggest that one of the causes of burning in the throat is a referred sensation due to hyperacidity.
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Presented at the XlVth World Congress of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Madrid, 13 September 1989.
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