20 out of 65 patients had odynophagia mostly during second and third week of radiation.

The condition often accompanies upper respiratory tract infections with symptoms that may include hoarseness, sore throat, odynophonia, odynophagia , dysphagia, dyspnea, cough, congestion, postnasal drip, and mucus.

The most common symptoms 263(91%) in our cases were dysphagia and odynophagia , in accordance with the literature.

This study was conducted at Combined Military Hospital Muzaffarabad with an aim to assess the efficacy of sucralfate in alleviating post tonsillectomy odynophagia . No such study had been conducted in our country regarding the use of sucralfate after tonsillectomy as far as we searched.

A 52-year-old Thai woman reported having odynophagia and dysphagia for 1 week.

There was absence of odynophagia or diarrhoea and retinal examination was normal.

A 45-year-old man presented to our otorhinolaryngology outpatient department with the symptoms of persistent odynophagia and hoarseness for 1 week after ingesting a fish bone.

[9] In our study, 9 patients (5%) needed to be hospitalized due to causes such as high-grade fever, severe odynophagia , dehydration and other pulmonary complications (Figure 1).

The majority of patients presented with odynophagia and dysphagia.

Majority of the patients, up to 72%, presented with odynophagia and/or dysphagia, 39% presented with chest discomfort, and only a small number presented with epigastric pain, dyspnea, hematemesis, melena, and so forth (Table 1).

All patients consulted with similar symptoms including hematemesis, fever, dysphagia, odynophagia , and systemic inflammatory response syndrome.