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The author considers operators of the form \[ (Au)(x)= (2\pi)^{- n} \int e^{ix\xi+ ih(x,\xi)} a(x,\xi) \widehat u(\xi) d\xi, \] where, being \(S^m= S^m_{1,0}\) the space of the classical symbols, one assumes \(a\in S^m\) and \(h\in S^r\) taking real values, \(0< r< 1\). The point of view of the author is to regard \(A\) as pseudodifferential operator with oscillatory symbol \(b(x,\xi)= a(x,\xi) e^{ih(x,\xi)}\). Note that \(b\in S^m_{1- r,r}\) and therefore for \(r< 1/2\) the standard calculus holds. Attention is here fixed on the case \(r\geq 1/2\), for which one obtains asymptotic expansions for symbols of operators of type \(A_1A^*_2\), \(A^*_2A_1\). Related results are proved with application to the analysis of the essential spectrum of \(A\). We observe that \(A\) could be regarded as well as Fourier integral operator with phase function, \(x\xi+ h(x,\xi)\); this point of view, giving the same results obtained here, was adopted by \textit{V. N. Tulovskii} [Trudy Mosc. Mat. Obsc., 39 (1979); Trans. Moscw. Math. Soc. 121-144 (1981)].