Long-term esophageal manometry in healthy subjects - Evaluation of normal values and influence of age

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1994, Pages 2069-2073

  Adamek, Romuald Joachim ^a,b   Wegener, Martin ^a,b   Wienbeck, Martin ^a,b   Gielen, Bernadette ^a,b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Zentralklinikum ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

age; long term manometry; normal values

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS FUNCTION; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MANOMETRY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ESOPHAGUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PERISTALSIS; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE;

EID: 0027971477     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: 15732568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02090352     Document Type: Article

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