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Eicken's method
Associated persons:
Karl Otto von Eicken
Description:
Facilitation of hypopharyngoscopy by means of forward traction of the cricoid cartilage by a curved laryngeal probe, making a funnel-shaped opening of the hypopharynx in order to gain view as far as to the first narrowing of the oesophagus.
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