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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Gastroenterology Research and Practice Volume 2011, Article ID 380682, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2011/380682 Research Article Swallowing in Parkinson Patients versus Healthy Controls: Reliability of Measurements in Videofluoroscopy 1 ´ 1, 2 ´ 3 1 Laura W. J. Baijens, Renee Speyer, Valeria Lima Passos, Walmari Pilz, Nel Roodenburg,4 and Pere Clave5 1 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, P.O. Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands 2 Department of Speech and Language Pathology, HAN University of Applied Sciences, 6525 EN Nijmegen, The Netherlands 3 Department of Methodology and Statistics, Maastricht University, 6229 HA Maastricht, The Netherlands 4 Department of Neurology, Maastricht University Medical Center, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands 5 Departamento de Cirug´ıa, Hospital de Matar´oy CIBEREHD, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Matar´o, Spain Correspondence should be addressed to Laura W. J. Baijens, laura.baijens@mumc.nl Received 14 February 2011; Accepted 9 July 2011 Academic Editor: Roberto O. Dantas Copyright © 2011 Laura W. J. Baijens et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective. To determine and describe the pathophysiological aspects of oropharyngeal swallowing in patients with Parkinson’s disease more accurately, a pilot study of qualitative as well as quantitative parameters of swallowing was performed using vide- ofluoroscopy (VFS)