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What is a myotomy?

What is a myotomy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (surgery) The surgical procedure of cutting or making an incision in a muscle or muscular organ.
  2. (dated) An anatomical dissection of a body, especially one used for instructional purposes.
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Patients in both groups had undergone cricopharyngeal myotomy and unilateral pharyngeal neurectomy.
The hyoid myotomy operation involves moving the hyoid bone forward, detaching the muscles and fixating the hyoid bone to the thyroid cartilage with non-resorbable sutures.
Hyoid suspension surgery is less invasive than the more widely used genioglossus advancement with hyoid myotomy.

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